Word: fulbrighter
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...although they have found little backing thus far in the ranks of regular Democrats. One outfit, the Citizens for Kennedy-Ful-bright, wrote 5,000 former delegates and alternates to Democratic conventions requesting support, got only 28 positive replies. Said an Oregonian: "The only time I would favor Senator Fulbright for any office would be in the event his opponent was Wayne Morse, in which case I would probably vote for Cassius Clay...
...additional U.S. aid to help bring LATCOM (Latin American Common Market) into being. He asked for a special congressional resolution that would pledge the extra U.S. aid-and ordinarily he would have got it. The House passed the resolution by a 2-to-l margin, but Senator J. W. Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a critic of John son's Viet Nam policy, balked...
...resolution, Fulbright claimed, would give the President the same sweeping powers as the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which authorized Johnson to use more force in Viet...
...Fulbright watered down the resolution so drastically during committee hearings that Johnson passed the word to let it die without coming to a Senate vote. Johnson still hopes to steer the generally responsive Latinos toward making the historic decision for the common mar ket, but the outcome will now depend more on his power of personal persuasion and less on the power of the dollar...
More important, Johnson's manipulation of the Tonkin Resolution has grievously undermined any role Congress could play in influencing his Vietnam decisions. This is the crux of the dispute -- Fulbright and the eight members of the committee quite logically feel that Johnson has been guilty of duplicity. And they have decided to punish him by withholding a diplomatic tool he has misused in the past...