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...from the start the open hearing was unexpectedly rough. Out of the blue, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, committee chairman, began carping about the witness' G.O.P. partisanship in old political speeches. Then Wayne Morse took over. He lashed at Mrs. Luce's statement, voiced during the 1944 presidential campaign, that Franklin Roosevelt was "the only American President who ever lied us into a war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it." Witness Luce conceded to Morse that "the language was very intemperate, and would not have been used...
Short hours after President Eisenhower nominated Christian Archibald Herter as his second Secretary of State, Chris Herter's old friend, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, began canvassing fellow Senators to line up swift Senate confirmation for Herter to correct any impression that there is "some division of opinion." Fulbright's point: the President's preoccupation with the illness of John Foster Dulles and his three-day delay in naming Herter (TIME, April 27) had blown up a world williwaw of speculation that the President was less than enthusiastic about Herter's appointment...
...soon as the President sent Herter's name to the Senate, Fulbright was ready to deliver. Vote for confirmation: 17 to 0 in the Foreign Relations Committee, 93 to 0 on the Senate floor. Time of confirmation: 4 hours 13 minutes, in contrast to the usual seven-day minimum...
...Made final preparations to fly to the Western Big Four foreign ministers' meeting this week in Paris. As a final note he invited the ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-Democrat Fulbright, Wisconsin Republican Alex Wiley-to accompany him to next month's foreign ministers' conference with the U.S.S.R. at Geneva. Fulbright was skeptical, since he regards the foreign ministers' meeting as a working-level session, but hinted broadly that he would like to go to the summit...
...what Congress does about the President's special request for $1.4 billion to meet U.S. International Monetary Fund obligations. Ike wants that $1.4 billion charged to the hopelessly unbalanced 1959 budget, some $13 billion in the red. Many Capitol Hill Democrats, led by Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright, want to list the IMF money in the 1960 budget, which would tilt it heavily out of balance. In predicting a $4.2 billion deficit in 1960, the joint committee report assumed that Fulbright & Fellows would win the argument. Last fortnight the Senate voted 58 to 25 to give Fulbright...