Lyndon B. Johnson
Working under President Johnson, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara made Project 100,000, a program of the Great Society domestic agenda, where men who were thought to be mentally and physically bad were drafted into military service during the Vietnam War. Some thought the program would reduce poverty through the recruits' education during military training. Of the 352,000 who entered into service, around 140,800 were Afro-Americans. The Project 100,000 participants were killed in Vietnam at a rate three times greater than the rate of soldiers of normal fitness for duty.