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...nominal issue was a constitutional question as delicate as any in the federal system of checks and balances: What power does Congress have to influence or change the President's conduct of a war? Committee Chairman William Fulbright evangelized for a resolution suggesting that Congress should have greater control over foreign policy. Implicit in the resolution was Fulbright's disapproval of the war and his wishful belief that Congress could do something...
...Fulbright himself sponsored the Tonkin resolution, a fact he now loudly regrets, claiming that the President has taken the measure as a blank check to wage unlimited war without any further consultation with Congress. For his part, President Johnson argued at his last press conference that Congress could vote to rescind the Tonkin resolution-but that also was legalistic legerdemain, since the President insisted at the same time that he had had no constitutional need for the Tonkin resolution in the first place...
...Even Fulbright does not believe that the Tonkin resolution should be rescinded. "I don't advocate its being brought up," he said. "An overwhelming defeat of such a move would be interpreted as an affirmation." Still, Illinois' Charles Percy, as a voluntary witness before the committee, suggested that the President should annually "itemize for the Congress our national commitments as he sees them, detailing the nature of each commitment, its limitations, and the justification for it in terms of national interest." In fact-if informally-Johnson has consulted more closely with Congress on foreign policy than...
...willing, Johnson announced at midweek that 20 Americans had been invited to go. The group includes six Senators and Governors, plus an assortment of mayors, labor and civil rights leaders, businessmen and clergymen. The harshest critic of Johnson's policies in Viet Nam-Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-politely declined the invitation...
...five Senators, who all face difficult re-election campaigns in 1968, J. W. Fulbright (D,-Ark.), Frank Church (D-Idaho), Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska), and George S. McGovern (D-S. Dakota...