Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate Foreign Relations Committee attempted to redress the balance somewhat, approving unanimously a report calling for a congressional curb on the President's power to commit the country to foreign military ventures. Quoting authorities ranging from Supreme Court Justice (1932-38) Benjamin Cardozo to Napoleon Bonaparte, William Fulbright's committee condemned what it called "the dangerous tendency" toward presidential supremacy in foreign policy from Theodore Roosevelt right up to Lyndon Johnson. "Only in the present century," it said, "have Presidents used the armed forces of the U.S. against foreign governments entirely on their own authority, and only since...
Taken literally, the committee's report probably would mean chaos for American foreign policy. Taken as a starting point for debate-and Fulbright has said that he has no immediate intention of putting the matter before the full Senate-it might be the signal for a healthy airing of differences between two of the major branches of U.S. Government. It can hardly help figuring to some extent in the 1968 campaign. Since it is merely an indication of sentiment, it is unlikely to cause Johnson any sleepless nights. Its strong language and bipartisan support might, however, induce some thought...
...Foreign Relations Committee contributed more than its due. With a passing reference to the fact that, historically, the committee's chairmen have "almost invariably found a great deal wrong with the Executive in the field of foreign policy," he took a swipe at the present chairman, J. William Fulbright, who had just pushed through resolutions urging Johnson to take the Viet Nam issue to the United Nations and demanding a greater voice for Congress in committing U.S. troops abroad. "The committee had a big day yesterday," said Johnson archly. "They reported two resolutions...
...President's new militancy-fueled perhaps by Democratic successes in last week's big-city elections -was aimed at both the inactive 90th Congress and the hyperactive antiwar dissenters. Other Administration voices were equally combative. Home from Southeast Asia, Hubert Humphrey was confronted by Senator J. William Fulbright during a White House briefing at which each legislator present was allowed one question. Fulbright's was: "Just who is our enemy there?" Retorted the Vice President: "You don't have to ask the G.I. whose leg has been cut off who the enemy...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk also fielded a perennial Fulbright question. Appearing before the Arkansas Senator's Foreign Relations Committee at a 31-hour closed session, Rusk was asked to explain why he continued to refuse to appear this year before the committee in a public session on Viet Nam. Rusk said he would think it over. Much more to his liking was a representation from Indiana University, where he had been heckled unmercifully last month by antiwar demonstrators. A contingent from Bloomington presented Rusk with notebooks containing an apology signed by 14,000 of the campus...