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...blind spot has been manifested repeatedly throughout Fulbright's career. In his first Senate speech in 1945, he termed fear of Communism a "powerful prejudice," declared that "the Russian experiment in socialism is scarcely more radical under modern conditions than the Declaration of Independence was in the days of George III." In his 1964 "Old Myths and New Realities" speech, delivered to a nearly empty Senate chamber, Fulbright urged a more pliant policy toward Red China. As for U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic, the Senator condemned Washington's "exaggerated estimates of Communist influence...
...Notable Silence. Despite all his pleas for tolerance of repressive regimes abroad, Fulbright has never voted for a federal civil rights bill and has remained notably silent on the Negro's drive for full citizenship. His public indifference to the race issue has not hurt him in Arkansas, which still tends toward white supremacy. Moreover, most Arkansans seem genuinely proud of Fulbright's prominence and, they assume, power...
...Bill has laid the gauntlet down and said, 'I'm going to say what I think.' A great body of people around here will defend him for that, even if they feel he's wrong." Adds James Powell, editorial-page editor of the Arkansas Gazette: "Fulbright got a lot of sympathetic reaction to Lyndon's blackballing him socially. That makes a lot of people mad as hell -it makes me mad as hell...
There is no sign that Fulbright's stand on Viet Nam has hurt him with the home folks. But there is fairly general agreement that should the war emergency deepen, he might be in trouble. Governor Orval Faubus, who is mellowing a bit on the race issue and is being mentioned as a possible challenger for Fulbright's seat in 1968, recently sounded off against the Senator's critical attitude on the Viet Nam issue. Charged Faubus: "There's no question but that it encourages the enemy. They will distort it to show weakness...
...Quitniks." Fulbright's tactics have certainly encouraged the G.O.P. Says Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott in a speech planned for a Lincoln Day luncheon this week: "Today a tiny proportion of Americans counsel a 'quit-nik' policy. These quitniks have found their voice in a bloc of members of the Democratic Party. At this rate, President Johnson may have to sue his own party for nonsupport...