Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alliance. As the House began debate on civil rights, the Senate finished debate on foreign aid-all but eviscerating the Administration's program. Assisted by Chairman William Fulbright, who turned against his Foreign Relations Committee's own bill, an assortment of doves, hawks, fiscal conservatives, unreconstructed Lyndon haters and those who simply doubt that aid is what it used to be formed a strange alliance to gut the perennially unpopular economic aid appropriation...
...Chided, in bipartisan debate, Richard Helms, the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, for writing a letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat applauding its editorial criticism of Fulbright's stand in last month's Senate hassle over the CIA. Helms promptly apologized to Fulbright by telephone and, as a peace offering, made a personal appearance before Fulbright's committee...
...doors might just as well have stayed open. The outcome was foreordained as the Senate, 61 to 28, sent the Foreign Relations' resolution to certain death in Russell's Armed Services Committee. It was another demonstration of Fulbright's lack of influence in Washington...
...Fulbright began the debate by downplaying his committee's move, arguing that since the CIA "plays a major role in the foreign policy decision-making process," it was only reasonable that the Foreign Relations Committee should be interested in it. A broadened-and by implication more alert-watchdog group, he claimed, would be but a "small step in the Senate's formal recognition of its duty to exercise a more comprehensive oversight of U.S. intelligence activities...
Muscling In. Sitting impassively across the way, Russell would have none of Fulbright's "self-serving, self-seeking" power play. The Foreign Relations Committee, he complained with reason, had "rewritten, rewritten and rewritten" its solution so that it would not be sent through normal parliamentary channels to the Armed Services Committee-where, he neglected to add, it would have been quietly killed. Knowingly touching the Senate's most sensitive nerve, Russell further objected that the resolution would "change the procedures of the Senate as they have existed since its creation." Said he: "I'm not trying...