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Born in Heidelberg, Germany Gray received her BA degree from Bryn Mawr in 1950 and her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University 1957. From 1950 to 1952, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University...
...National Security Adviser to George Bush, "ought to be an instrument of U.S. foreign policy and interests. That means you use it sometimes when you don't have popular support or when you have very limited goals." Says Seth Tillman, who was a staff member of Senator J. William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee during the 1960s: "The lesson of Vietnam is to forget about Vietnam. Be very discriminating about your interests and the feasibility of protecting them...
...Even when he runs for student government at Georgetown University, and seems a bit slick for a campus politician, he is far more thoughtful, professional and sympathetic than any recent Harvard Undergraduate Council candidate. At Georgetown, he also gets a prominent government job working for Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. There Clinton, a character who had accepted rules without challenging them, senses forces that lead him to rebellion and reverses his support for the Vietnam...
DIED. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 89, former Democratic Senator from Arkansas and founder of the international exchange program now known as the Fulbright fellowships; in Washington. A Rhodes scholar, Fulbright was named president of the University of Arkansas at 34, but lost that job soon after his journalist mother wrote an editorial criticizing the state's Governor. From the beginning of his career in Washington, Fulbright focused on world affairs, submitting, as a freshman Representative in 1943, the resolution that ultimately led to the creation of the United Nations; he initiated the scholars' exchange program two years later when he reached...
...meter; of a heart attack; while on vacation in Tucson, Arizona. The son of a founding partner of the stock-brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, he had a remarkably productive career that included plays, fiction, 14 volumes of verse and the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. DIED. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 89, former Senator from Arkansas who founded the international exchange program now known as the Fulbright fellowships; in Washington. From the beginning of his political career, Fulbright focused on world affairs, submitting as a freshman Representative in 1943 the resolution that ultimately helped create the United Nations; he initiated the scholars...