After drawing a high number in the Vietnam-era draft, he moved to New York and passed that state's bar.

The transition from a Vietnam-era draft to an all-volunteer force had a tremendous impact on the Minnesota National Guard.

Fleeing the Vietnam-era draft, Mr. Moses and his wife, Janet, moved to Tanzania, where three of their four children were born.

Mr. Clinton never served in the armed forces and was forced to defend himself through most of his campaign against accusations that he dodged the Vietnam-era draft.

But, as Janina Montero, dean of student life at Princeton, notes, feminism and the Vietnam-era draft changed that.

Southern and Western states may provide far more members to the American military today than during the Vietnam-era draft.

With the end of the Vietnam-era draft, the military feared a shortage of doctors in an all-volunteer service.

The present all-volunteer armed forces still suffer from much of the class skewing of the Vietnam-era draft.

Each of them underscored the appropriateness of Mr. Clinton attending the ceremony, though he had avoided the Vietnam-era draft.

As the Vietnam-era draft did, the crippled economy has inspired the kind of fear and craving for change that compels people to gather and shout.