Word: fulbrighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Democratic Senators, e.g., Arkansas' William Fulbright and New York's Herbert Lehman, promptly rose to rebuke Knowland for his stand. But Minorety Leader Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat who seldom hesitates to support a Republican position if he believes it is best for the country, stood firmly beside the majority leader. Said he : "The American people want no appeasement of Communists. The American people will refuse to support the United Nations if Red China becomes a member...
Terming the holder of a Fulbright grant "an ambassador of good will," McCarthy then asked Lewis whether the United States government should not award the grants to "other ambassadors of good will whose wives don't refuse to answer questions as to whether they belong to the Communist Party or refuse to give information to the F.B.I. about members of the Communist Party...
...statement later, Lewis denounced McCarthy's questioning as an "inquisition." He appears to be interested in my Fulbright Award only to the extent of inquiring into my political opinions and what is even more astonishing, into my wife's politics...
That afternoon McCarthy announced with evident satisfaction that the State Department had officially withdrawn the Fulbright grant from Lewis. "I think it (the cancellation) is an excellent idea," said the Senator...
...month later in a Senate committee hearing, McCarthy became embroiled in a vigorous argument over the grants with Senator J. William Fulbright, author of the act which established the fellowships. While Fulbright agreed that admitted Communists should not receive the grants, he struck back at McCarthy with the statement. "I can well imagine intelligent people refusing to answer because they have been the object of indignity...