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...President's first trip outside the North American continent since entering the White House, and it was organized with the characteristic Johnsonian gusto for the unexpected. A compelling though unacknowledged reason for the sudden decision was the opportunity it gave the President to steal the spotlight from the Fulbright committee's televised hearings on the war. But there were other motives of greater consequence. The President wanted to galvanize the lagging pacification program in Viet Nam-and thereby show such critics as New York's Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy that he was not ignoring the political...
...Chairman William Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee confided to a friend last week that he had not talked privately with President Johnson since last October. Said the Senator: "I regret that he has no more interest in my views than he has." Fulbright maintains that his decision last month to hold extensive public hearings on Viet Nam reflected no "personal animosity toward the President" but was aimed only at resolving "a much more serious, much more dangerous" conflict than the Administration will acknowledge. In recent weeks he has unmistakably emerged as the leader of congressional opposition...
...sake," says Fulbright, "this is becoming a major war! I assume that this is still a democracy, that the Senate has a role to play in foreign affairs. The hearings are a part of that role." He adds: "The easy way is to go along, to keep quiet. It's not very pleas ant always getting shot...
Last week it was Fulbright's turn to shoot. Most top Administration officials were either in Honolulu or Saigon, and thus, in his committee's third week of sessions devoted primarily to the war, Fulbright had to make do with Retired General James Gavin and ex-Diplomat George Kennan, neither of whom has served in any official capacity for sev eral years. Both eagerly echoed Ful bright's apprehensions about Viet...
Blind Spot. Bland persistence is the hallmark of the Arkansas Democrat, who was once denounced by Harry Truman as "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b." But though onetime Rhodes Scholar Fulbright, 60, has long been described as an enigma, the trait that has made him a Senate storm center for two decades is not hard to define...