The Speaker and the draft - War was spreading across the globe in August 1941, yet the United States was preparing to end its first-ever peacetime draft and greatly reduce the size of its armed forces. Faced with that possibility, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn prepared to use all his political savvy to keep America's young men in uniform
P. Saunders, The Speaker and the draft - War was spreading across the globe in August 1941, yet the United States was preparing to end its first-ever peacetime draft and greatly reduce the size of its armed forces. Faced with that possibility, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn prepared to use all his political savvy to keep America's young men in uniform, AM HIST, 36(3), 2001, pp. 42-46