Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More important, Johnson's manipulation of the Tonkin Resolution has grievously undermined any role Congress could play in influencing his Vietnam decisions. This is the crux of the dispute -- Fulbright and the eight members of the committee quite logically feel that Johnson has been guilty of duplicity. And they have decided to punish him by withholding a diplomatic tool he has misused in the past...
President Johnson was stymied last week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Led by its chairman, Senator Fulbright, the committee refused to support a joint resolution -- scheduled on the eve of the Latin American summit conference at Punta del Este -- which would have promised to back financially the new Common Market south of the border...
Many Senate doves, spearheaded by Fulbright, have never gotten over the Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed in August, 1964. The President, to the chagrin of many of the resolution's proponents, has used the overwhelming Congressional support he received on that occasion as a rationale for many of his moves in Vietnam unrelated to the Tonkin incident...
...intemperate, irrational language only underscored the President's seriousness and perseverance in seeking an end to the war. Even his longtime antagonist on Viet Nam, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, acknowledged that Johnson's approach had been "very reasonable." One of the few voices raised against the Administration was, not unexpectedly, that of New York's Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who maintained that Johnson had raised the price for peace talks by adding "the further condition that we have evidence that Hanoi has already ceased infiltration before we stop the bombing...
Though he worked at a number of odd jobs (including chauffering President Conant) and played baseball, his marks began to inch higher. He made Phi Beta Kappa, got a magna on his Economics thesis and won a Fulbright...