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...that remarkable legislative record the work of the Jewish lobby? What is it and how does it work? Some Senators, whose lonely votes were cast in vain against the lobby's wishes, including former Senator J. William Fulbright and South Dakota Senator James Abourezk (a Lebanese American and a Christian who is the only Arab in the Senate), see it as an overpoweringly efficient steamroller. Those who have championed its causes tend to view it as an amorphous, largely spontaneous expression of diverse Jewish groups and individuals who respond quickly and spiritedly to issues about which they feel deeply...
...achieved a giant-killer reputation by coming out of his state's hill country to defeat popular former Governor Orval Faubus in a primary election. Later in 1970, he knocked off the in cumbent Governor Winthrop Rockefeller to take over the statehouse and, finally, Senator J. William Fulbright last year. Breezy, charming and easygoing, his winning ways make him a highly effective campaigner. A lawyer and farmer who tags himself a populist, Bumpers is liberal on such issues as expanded Medicare and race relations...
...read and reported with relish the findings of the Treasury in the biggest tax cases. He bragged once that he knew within minutes what Senator William Fulbright, then chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, had said at lunch at the Soviet embassy or what Soviet contacts had told other members of Congress at cocktail parties. He insisted that the Soviets were building Viet Nam opposition in Congress and the press. He slapped his thigh with delight when he got a report from the FBI about a prominent Republican Senator who frequented a select Chicago bordello and had some kinky sexual...
...William Fulbright, 69, Democratic Senator from Arkansas for 30 years, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee: "This inflation is a terrible, terrible burden. It was inflation, primarily, that caused the great mass of people to lose confidence in the Weimar Republic. We keep hearing calls for new leadership, which is what happened in Germany. It begins to sound more and more like what people want is a man on a white horse, a dictator. I'm not saying we're going to have Seven Days in May. All I'm saying is that it is possible...
...vote for one of the few men to maintain a fair, evenhanded view of the Middle East situation-Senator J. William Fulbright...