Good thing Grover Norquist wasn't around.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

Both Franklin Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie supported a military draft, which passed Congress less than two months before the 1940 election. Politicians are ordinarily risk-averse at such a time. But Roosevelt and Willkie had the courage to advocate a draft, even though it was the first in our history to be enacted when the nation was not at war. Even their great leadership would not have been effective, however, if the American people had not had enough of the right stuff to respond. Polls show...