President. in my past reflections on the amnesty question. I had argued that amnesty should be offered but on a casebycase basis. I have changed my view and come to reject that approach for the same reasons that we are not considering it in our assistance to the Indochina refugees. It creates a wholly unworkable administrative task. and fosters an arbitrariness which almost necessarily favors the better educated and more affluent. Moreover. we cannot presume to be able to reach back into an individuals pastin the case of some of our war objectors up to 12 yearsand even hope to figure out what a given motive or combination of motives might have been.
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