In fact, the most visible action that Romney took during the early Vietnam War years was to participate in a pro-draft demonstration at Stanford University in the spring of 1966.
There were a few anti-draft demonstrations going on or that I was involved in that spurred me to write Partyup.
In reaction to the disproportionate number of black soldiers being killed in Vietnam, SNCC activists organised one of the first anti-draft demonstrations, at the Atlanta induction centre in 1966 and coined the slogan "Hell no, we won't go!" The war over there was soon to become a war over here.
LBJ's invasion of the Dominican Republic was bad enough; his dramatic escalation of the Viet Nam War spurred huge anti-war demonstrations, draft card burnings and accusations of treason from an older generation that, from our point of view, didn't get it.
We also proposed a draft of the engineering demonstration satellite while examining major element technology.
Foreign Secretary William Hague told the BBC that publishing the draft bill was a "demonstration of our commitment to a referendum".
Students marched against the war, turned in their draft cards and staged a huge demonstration when Lady Bird Johnson spoke to the Political Union.
Shots rang out on Wednesday morning at the University of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during a student demonstration against a controversial draft law to extend the rule of DRC President Joseph Kabila.
I did join the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, and later resisted the draft and was arrested in nonviolent demonstrations.
The guys who actually organized the demonstrations and burned their draft cards et cetera were taking very substantial risks they didn't need to do".
In January 1905, following the massacre of a worker demonstration bearing a petition drafted by the Union of Liberation ("Bloody Sunday"), the country exploded in rebellion, which, ebbing and flowing in response to news from the front, reached a climax in October 1905.
