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Though Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright denounced the assault as "just another indication of the rising momentum of fighting" and urged "some drastic action to halt it," his Democratic colleague Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was less alarmed. "Our troops have gone only to the doorstep of North Viet Nam," he said. "They are operating south of the 17th parallel...
...nation smothered by the blue-silver smog of television Vaughn is a celebrity. No Progressive Labor spokesman could be more appealing to construction workers, taxi cab drivers and unemployed factory hands than the glamorous man from U.N.C.L.E. William Fulbright can't compete with him for the attention of middle class clerks and housewives. He is very much aware of the possibilities created by his star status, and he has chosen to utilize them for the benefit of the anti-war cause. "Everyone doesn't have the podium I have to speak from," he says. "My audiences may come...
...Americans for Democratic Action recently bemoaned the possibility that a prolonged war in Viet Nam "could mean the death and burial of the Democratic Party." Snapped Arnold, a lifelong Democrat: "In other words, the Democratic Party is more important than the enforcement of international law." Replying to Senator Fulbright's well-worn charge that the U.S. is "arrogant," he asked: "Is it arrogance when we permit ourselves to be lectured by a Burmese citizen named U Thant and, instead of resenting his criticism, encourage and cooperate with...
...every way, things are getting worse and worse. They are, that is, in the angry eyes of those who disapprove of U.S. policy in Viet Nam. As they see it, the very expression of their dissent is getting more dangerous. So it was that to Senator J. William Fulbright, General Westmoreland's report to Congress signaled nothing less than an onslaught of official repression that might silence dissenters altogether by branding them traitors. Said he on the Senate floor: "This, I fear, is one of the last times that anybody will have the courage to say anything else about...
...home. Aguinaldo himself seemed to be little different from Ho Chi Minh as he pinned his hopes on the dissenters' pressure. "The continuance of the fighting," protested General Henry Lawton before the guerrillas killed him, "is chiefly due to reports that are sent out from America." Had Senator Fulbright been around he would have found reason to worry. McKinley's Cabinet actually debated whether to prosecute the Nation and three U.S. newspapers for treason...