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Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stood casually with one hand in a pocket, spoke in an offhand manner: "Mr. President, it is my task today to commence the debate on the foreign assistance bill of 1963." Although long one of the Senate's foremost advocates of foreign aid, Fulbright demonstrated that this time he really did find his task painful. "I tend to share the view of many members of this body," he said, "that at least portions of the foreign aid program are obsolescent." He urged the Kennedy Administration "not to delay...
Apologetic & Symptomatic. Fulbright's apologetic tone was symptomatic of the fact that even foreign aid's best congressional friends realize that the program, in its present form, is doomed. "The reason why the program is in trouble-and it is in trouble," declared New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, "is that neither this Administration nor the previous Administration understood what the private enterprise system is capable of contributing, and has failed to use it." Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse charged that U.S. taxpayers were being "rooked by our worldwide-flung giveaway foreign aid program...
...Senate is so sour on foreign aid that before the first week of debate was over Fulbright found that he could not even defend the $4.2 billion that his own committee had recommended in its authorization bill. He agreed with Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen to cut it to about $3.8 billion. President Kennedy originally had sought $4.9 billion, dropped his request to $4.5 billion after a critical report by a special committee headed by General Lucius Clay. The House has approved only $3.5 billion...
...moon effort have made it evident to scientists both in and out of NASA that the target date will not be met. With the officially planned expenditure, 1971 is a more realistic estimate. Furthermore, there has been growing public and political opposition to the immense Apollo budget. Senator Fulbright summarized these views in Congress last week, nothing that the results of moon exploration "are remote and incalculable, and the need for schools and jobs is immediate and pressing." Finally the President of the Soviet National Academy of Sciences and other sources have made it clear that the USSR...
Kennedy's speech at the United Nations and Senator Fulbright's remarks could mark the start of a period for rational and unimpassioned appraisal of the space program. If the President and NASA foster such an atmosphere they will be able to get both Congress and the public to accept a realistic moon program. Neither the economy nor Project Apollo can afford the present pace...