Draft Limits of 21 to 35 Established (9-12-40)

[NormanStewart]

@klkevelson1

A lot of folks who were drafted liked it because we were in a depression and they just needed jobs.

According to Wendell Willkie (emphasis mine):

If I am elected, I promise you jobs. I promise honest work and honest wages. The only jobs now are made by the defense program. Hitler is requiring us to do that. Why has Hitler struck France and England? Because they were weak and economically unsound.

Election 1940: Willkie Hits Defense Plan As Political (9-13-40)

One prescient point from Willkie was the growing power of “an entrenched bureaucracy” as Congress was increasingly delegating duties to permanent Executive branch officials. To a farmer born in 1890, the New Deal would have looked like a soft revolution, one as sweeping as the implementation of the Constitution.