Although the Vietnam War still dragged on, American troops had come home, and Mr. Schwarzschild was a leader in the effort to close that chapter in our history by granting unconditional amnesty to draft dodgers and deserters. Although the discussion remains civil, host and guest are about as far apart as two people can be, on everything from the constitutionality of the draft, to the applicability of precedents such as President Truman's amnesty for draft resisters in 1947 or the post-Civil War amnesty for Confederate soldiers. HS: "Is it not time for this government and this society, which has now begun to make peace with Hanoi, with Peking, with Moscow, to make peace with the children of our country?"