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During the end stages of WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt lowered the drafting age from 21 year old down to 18. "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote" was a common slogan from the voting youth groups, however, at this time, the proposal of constitutional voting rights for 18 year old failed to have enough political traction. -
At the middle and the end stages of the Vietnam War, the movement was bigger and it was a more political topic that Richard Nixon recognized, but he still believed that it was up to the states to have the right to pick the drafting age.
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On March 10th, the US Senate unanimously voted the proposition of the 26th Amendment. On March 23rd, an overwhelming vote in favor of said amendment. The next two months, the states quickly adopted the amendment making this amendment the fastest to gain the minimum requirement votes from the senate in US history. The 23rd Amendment went into affect on July 1st, 1971.
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500-member choral group Young Americans in Concert was at the East Room in the White House to witness Richard Nixon signing the certified amendment