As a member of the Committee on Veterans'Affairs, Lusk supported many of President Harry S . Truman's administration's domestic programs ( although she voted to override President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act ) and was a staunch backer of the administration's foreign policy proposals, voting for assistance to Greece and Turkey and endorsing universal military training.
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As a member of the Council of Defence, he strongly supported the movement for universal military training not conventional conscription, but rather a form of basic military training on a part-time basis for all adult men arguing that it would mean " the flower of the nation would be the soldiers, not the weeds ".
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In March 1963, he went to Washington to testify before a Senate subcommittee against the bill to extend the induction provisions of the Universal Military Training and Service Act and urged " establishing an integral strategic nonviolent national defense system . . . What is suggested is a basic reorientation of the defense posture of this nation ".
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The Universal Military Training and Service Act of 1951 set the statutory terms of service for the military at a minimum of 8 years, lowered the draft age from 19 to 18? increased active-duty service time from 21 to 24 months, and contained a provision obligating all young American males to UMT . There was one catch in the legislation though.
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A Gallup poll from August 1947 found that 90 % had heard about the mysterious flying saucers or flying discs, and a 1950 Gallup poll found that 94 % of those polled had heard the term, easily beating out all other mentioned commonly used terms in the news such as " Cold War ", " universal military training ", and " bookie ."
