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...There is a presumption," intoned Democratic Senator William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "that career foreign-service officers nominated for ambassadorial posts have some qualifications. There is, however, no such presumption that noncareer nominees are qualified. The burden on noncareer people is to prove to the committee that they are qualified." Arkansas' Fulbright was talking to young (33) Ogden Rogers Reid, former publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, who has been nominated by President Eisenhower as U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Fulbright had every intention of using "Brownie" Reid to prove his argument that noncareer ambassadorial...
...Chairman Fulbright opened last week's hearings on the Reid nomination with the announcement that he had "15 or 20 minutes of questions." He then proceeded to grill Reid for 5½ hours. Asked Fulbright: "Tell the committee where you had your formal education." Reid cleared his throat, said he had been formally educated at Yale...
Question: "Did you make good grades?" Answer: "Well, I believe I was relatively close to the dean's list part of the time." Question: "Could you estimate where you stood in your class from the top or the bottom?" Answer: "No, sir, I never checked on that." Fulbright, Rhodes scholar and onetime president of his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, was incredulous. Asked he: "You weren't interested in trying to learn?" (In fact, Yale does not rank its students...
...Excursion. Fulbright kept boring in, drew an admission that Reid had not graduated with his class because his senior thesis had been unsatisfactory. Purred Fulbright: "What was the thesis about?" Said Reid in a small voice: "The thesis was about lobbying, sir, lobbying in Congress." A little later Fulbright began reading excerpts from an Esquire article about Brownie Reid's Yale career. Among them, quoting a Yale roommate's recollection: "Brownie didn't spend more than a dozen nights on campus, and to keep in physical condition he relied on bar bells and flying his Widgeon...
Finished with his excursion into Brownie's schooldays, Fulbright began probing into Reid's business affairs-and those of the Herald Tribune, owned for years by the Reid family, but recently taken over by U.S. Ambassador to Britain John Hay Whitney. Did Reid think he had "worked" his way up to his position as publisher? Well, he had worked on general assignment for a year, been responsible for the Trib's European edition for six years. Had not the paper lost $800,000 last year? Reid admitted it was "in the red." Asked Fulbright sarcastically: "In view...