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Elephant & Mouse. It is no secret that the President puts Senator J. William Fulbright in this category, and true to form, the Arkansas Democrat attacked the Honolulu meeting as "a further obstacle to a negotiated settlement" because it so firmly committed Washington to support of the present regime in Saigon. Fulbright's views were echoed by several anti-Administration witnesses before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee-most notably George F. Kennan, former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and a leading exponent of the "containment" policy that was designed to defend Europe against Soviet expansionism in the late 1940s...
...Testing Ground. Indeed, the testimony before Fulbright's committee pointed up a curious fact. Many liberal interventionists who were so ready to fight for Europe before World War II have become virtual isolationists today. Their rallying cry is that th.e U.S., though many times more powerful now than it was then, should never commit its manpower in Asia, and has no sound reason to do so. American troops have thus far proved that the U.S. can fight and fight well in Asia. As for the reasons for doing so, the President says in effect that Kennan's containment...
...later, the Senator decided to precipitate that debate in public. However, since only one of the committee's 13 Democrats, Louisiana's Russell Long, now unreservedly supported the President, the re-examination promised to become an all-out attack on Johnson's conduct of the war. Fulbright was having trouble getting some key witnesses to the stand. McNamara and Wheeler refused to testify in open hearings, arguing that they might compromise the security of the 200,000 U.S. fighting men in Viet Nam. Maxwell Taylor had to postpone his appearance so that he could fly to Honolulu...
...Good Time." Fulbright insisted solemnly that "we are not trying to put on a circus" with the televised committee hearings. Even if he had been, Johnson's portentous flight to Honolulu would have stolen the spotlight. Naturally, that was not the chief object of the President's meeting with Saigon's leaders. "For some time I have been wanting to see them," said Johnson. "This seems to be a good time to do it." In fact, it seemed long overdue, for no U.S. President in office has ever met with the leaders of South Viet...
...advantage a Senate rule by which no committee other than Appropriations may meet while the main body is in session. "I must insist on that rule," he intoned in his best steamboat-Gothic profundo. "I cannot, helter-skelter, permit one committee to meet and not another." Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright protested in vain that his Foreign Relations Committee urgently needed to review President Johnson's $275 million supplemental request for economic aid to South Viet Nam. The problem could easily be resolved, Dirksen countered, by getting Mansfield to withdraw his motion to take up repeal...