The U.S. military draft is approved by President Roosevelt on this day, September 16, 1940. The Selective Service and Training Act set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.
In this photo FDR presides over the first drawing of the Selective Service on October 29, 1940.
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FDR Library Photo Collection. NPx. 48-22:3712(32)
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