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...foreign policies to meet the changed situation has not yet become the subject of a Great Debate. But it has stirred up a lot of talk, and one who had his say last week, in the nearly empty chamber of the U.S. Senate, was Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright...
...Unthinkable Thoughts." As chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Fulbright is a man whose opinion carries some weight, and in his 70-minute speech he offered some weighty opinions. "We are confronted with a complex and fluid world situation, and we are not adapting ourselves to it," he said. "We are clinging to old myths in the face of new realities." The rules of the game have changed, Fulbright was saying, and the U.S. will be outscored unless it starts doing some hard thinking about "a growing category of 'unthinkable thoughts...
...There certainly are policies that are encased in frozen attitudes, and Fulbright performed a worthwhile service in making a move to unthaw them. The trouble is, one man's myth can be another's reality, and Fulbright may yet find that some of his own "realities" are themselves dangerous myths. In any case, the chief realities as perceived by the Senator from Arkansas...
...from Congress. Arriving in Washington the night that Kennedy was shot, he looked around and asked, "Where's Dick?"-meaning Georgia's Senator Richard Russell. Dick wasn't there that afternoon, but Johnson now chats with him almost daily, regularly discusses foreign policy with Senators William Fulbright and Hubert Humphrey...
...Fulbright's retreat was aimed at avoiding an even worse fate for the bill. Morse announced that he has more than a dozen amendments to offer, needs about three weeks of debate to explain them all. Senator Everett Dirksen took exception to this, enlivened the debate briefly by ridiculing Morse. "With a decent approach and with no Senator feeling that all the wisdom reposes in him alone, we can get out of here on schedule," said Dirksen. Otherwise, he predicted, Senators will sit around their Christmas tree Dec. 25 "in their red flannel pajamas," watching their grandchildren, and suddenly...