Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yelping Dogs. After Dirksen had finished, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright rose, three seats away. For more than an hour, the two men exchanged caustic rhetoric...
Unanswerable Question. Dirksen called the war "a Red threat," involving Moscow and Peking as well as Hanoi. But Fulbright insisted that Russia, at least, was growing less belligerent. Otherwise, he said, disingenuously, "I do not know why she withdrew those missiles in Cuba...
ARKANSAS' Senator William Fulbright sounding off against L.B.J.? Not by more than a century. It is Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln speaking during the Mexican War. To Lincoln, that war was both "unnecessary and unconstitutional," and his vehement protests were repeated by scores of other prominent critics. Lincoln's argument echoed an attitude that is as old as American history. For Americans have always looked upon war as an evil to be avoided whenever possible. Thus in 1846 there were those who wholly disapproved of the hostilities against Mexico-just as today there are those who wholly disagree with...
Actually, Ashmore's letter, written with help from top State Department officials and William Fulbright, was not markedly different from Johnson's. It advised Hanoi that there could be no U.S. bombing pause without "some reciprocal restraint" on its part. The President's letter, more direct and official, called for similar reciprocity...
...time, he told Fulbright--the floor manager for the Tonkin Resolution--that he had no plans for a major increase in America's share of the war. This summer, Undersecretary of State Katzenbach expressed the Administration view that the resolution gave the President authority to invade China if he wished...