Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprise move yesterday, Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) read a statement by five Harvard professors condemning further escalation of the Vietnam war before Secretary of State Dean Rusk and a national television audience...
...Fulbright's action, a complete surprise to the five professors, came at the close of two days of public hearings on the war. Rusk attended the hearings to defend the administration's policy in Vietnam...
...reading the statement, Fulbright underlined the key issue of the hearings--whether further escalations would be allowed. By endorsing it, he set himself and the majority of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in direct opposition to any further escalation of U.S. troop commitments in Vietnam...
...obvious doubts, neither of the sharpest of the senatorial critics of the Johnson Administration's handling of the incident-Wayne Morse and William Fulbright-questions that some sort of an engagement did take place on Aug. 4. Others are not so sure. Yet even if it is conceded that the attack did happen, many substantial questions remain unanswered. The Administration, argues Fulbright, "didn't have a clear call to war" and acted precipitately and with inadequate evidence in sending American planes to bomb North Viet Nam. Last week's testimony strongly suggests that the Administration did indeed...
...framers intended to give the President the power to meet a sudden attack without a congressional declaration of war." In addition, Congress has ratified the SEATO Treaty, which provides for aid to member nations threatened by external forces, and it has passed the Tonkin Resolution, which even Senator William Fulbright conceded at the time gave the President the authority to use such force as could lead to war. Many U.S. Presidents have had much less support for their actions, notably Lincoln, who blockaded Southern ports without congressional consent...