Word: fulbright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peter G. Peterson said to Washington Post Reporter Sally Quinn about his official sojourn in Washington, "the experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless." Before bidding farewell to the capital, Peterson went to a dinner party with some Democratic friends (Host Tom Braden, Senator J. William Fulbright, Former Ambassador David Bruce), where he regaled everyone with an imaginary version of his dismissal. He had been summoned to "Mount David," said Peterson, and subjected to a loyalty test. Had his wife Sally really voted for McGovern? Would he please give a one-word description of his friend Senator...
Among the most serious imperfections that Ellsberg deals with are the increasingly flimsy veils of optimistic fictions that Presidents have had to weave over the pessimistic realities in Southeast Asia. As the Pentagon papers showed, Presidents deceive and are deceived, sometimes by their own deceptions. Testifying before Senator Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee, Ellsberg offered a frightening model: "When the President starts lying, he begins to need evidence to back up his lies because in this democracy he is questioned on his statements. It then percolates down through the bureaucracy that you are helping the Boss if you come...
...Republican leaders were equally surprised. They adopted what Senator Robert Dole called a "rearguard strategy." They decided to vote against the military aid bill, which was killed, 48-42. Curiously enough, such Senate doves as Mansfield and William Fulbright voted against it because they object to giving any military assistance to foreign countries...
...example, McPherson agrees with the conventional wisdom that Hubert Humphrey is warm, open, self-amused, bursting with affirmation of life. But he also sees Humphrey as a man not ruthless enough to carry through with the consequences of his judgments. Elsewhere, McPherson gets William Fulbright just right: "Bored by the kind of things with which most Senators were agreeably concerned, he was skeptical of man's ability to choose a reasonable course. He sometimes seemed to have a stake in losing, in being isolated and right...
...study in Japan, and pay for Japanese scholars to study for six months in the U.S. The main point of the project, though, is to expand Japanese-studies programs at U.S. universities. Overall, the Japanese hope to improve somewhat strained ties with the U.S. Ambassador Ushiba praised the Fulbright program as a bridge to better understanding, pointedly adding: "This good will must be reciprocated...