Word: fulbrighter
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...Lacouture has proved to be a reluctant critic. True, he was flattered when Senator Fulbright read his New York Review of Books article into the record of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But more often, he displays an almost overcautious sensitivity about his role here. "I don't want to shock or antagonize anyone," he says, pushing his bushy eyebrows together. "I don't agree with everything, but I'm a guest in this country, and not a foreigner here to give lessons...
...Fulbright charged that the U.S. was demanding "unconditional surrender" from Hanoi. The merest flicker of irritation showed on Rusk's round face...
...think there is something wrong with our approach," chided Fulbright. "There must be something wrong with our diplomacy." Rusk suggested another possibility. "Senator," he asked in a voice edged with anger, "is it just possible that there is something wrong with them...
Thus ended the Fulbright committee's hearings. In them and in Lyndon Johnson's Atlantic City speech (see following story), the Administration had explicitly and exhaustively explained its stand. There will, of course, be more congressional debate, but until new events change the military equation, it will be largely academic...
...Harold Holt, Australia's new Prime Minister, gave him such a warm introduction that the tanned but tired traveler confessed: "You touched the favorite nerve cell in my body-namely, the talking cell." Whereupon the Vice President delivered yet another speech. He reassured his audience that, despite Senator Fulbright's damaging confession Down Under that he was unaware of Australia's troop commitment to Viet Nam, the U.S. is grateful for the Diggers there. Humphrey was blithely unconcerned by Vietnik pickets who called him a war criminal. In fact, they inspired a Hubertism. Said Humphrey...