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...When the Fulbright hearings on Red China ended last week, they had produced little to cause the Administration to change its basic policy. Since Americans are more aware of and more interested in Europe, the sessions did perform a useful function in getting China into the headlines. Chairman J. William Fulbright took what comfort he could from that fact...
...that they circulated it sufficiently. No other U.S. newspaper, however, shared the Times's enthusiasm for the document. If they ran anything on it at all, most papers carried a much shorter Associated Press story that coupled the scholars' recommendations with similar ones made by Senator Fulbright. Even many of the papers that subscribe to the New York Times News Service ran the A.P. version...
Such testimony was clearly a disappointment to Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, who has repeatedly warned that the U.S. commitment to Viet Nam might lead to war with China. And for all the chairman's hopeful proddings, the scholars without exception described as unrealistic Fulbright's contention that the U.S. and Red China should agree to "neutralize" Southeast Asia. Samuel B. Griffith, a retired Marine Corps brigadier general and old China hand who holds an Ox ford University doctorate in Chinese military history and translated Mao Tse-tung's key treatise On Guerrilla Warfare, bluntly told...
...despite the criticism of his basic stance toward China, and that of previous Administrations, President Johnson could only have been pleasantly surprised by the Fulbright committee hearings in which non-Administration witnesses-and from the often critical academic community at that-actually expressed support for the war in Viet...
Watching TV during the last few weeks, Americans saw the spectacle of a half circle of rumpled men on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-Chairman William Fulbright peering over his spectacles like a country-store sage, Oregon's Wayne Morse flailing a limp arm, Vermont's George Aiken beaming avuncularly for the cameras-all of them questioning or baiting Administration witnesses and, through the witnesses, Lyndon Johnson. In the end only five Senators voted against tabling a motion rescinding the 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution, which had authorized the President to take all necessary action in Southeast Asia...