Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote of 14 to 5, the Foreign Relations Committee demanded the creation of a nine-member Senate "Committee on Intelligence Operations"-in which it would participate. Under the resolution, drafted by Minnesota Democrat Eugene McCarthy with the chairman's approval, Fulbright would be empowered to add three members of his committee to the special subcommittee-presently consisting of six members of the Armed Services and Appropriations panels and chaired by Georgia Democrat Richard Russell-that is already responsible for supervising the intelligence agency...
...makes U.S. foreign policy ("sheer poppycock"), warned that an enlarged committee would only increase the possibility of security leaks that could endanger the lives of the agency's "sources." What privately troubled many Senators was that the anti-Viet Nam war, power-is-arrogance clique that dominates Fulbright's committee might not be the most objective overseers of the nation's most important intelligence...
During the debate, Fulbright himself rose to complain that CIA Director Admiral William Raborn, when haled before his committee, had refused to answer anything but "superficial" questions. Russell, artfully invoking both his own prestige and Senate precedent, contended that 1) committees have traditionally been granted the right to "legislative oversight" of agencies that they have recommended, and 2) it was his own Armed Services Committee that had approved the birth of the CIA in 1947. "Unless the committee of which I am chairman has been derelict in its duty," the Georgian said pointedly, "there is no justification whatever...
...first, it seemed that Senator J. William Fulbright was apologizing. In a talk to the National Press Club in Washington last week (his first appearance in his 23 years in Washington), he expressed "regret" for an earlier speech in which he had called Saigon "literally and figuratively an American brothel"-a charge he repeated before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But then he went on to argue that the press had misinterpreted...
...find myself embroiled in a silly controversy over some minor observation which could as well have been left out of the speech. I think you have responsibility for conveying the essence of messages and not just those parts which lend themselves to controversy." As for the brothel remark, said Fulbright, it was intended to illustrate the "general proposition that rich and strong nations have a powerful impact on small and weak ones. Frankly, it never occurred to me that a brief summary of an article by Neil Sheehan in the New York Times would attract such widespread interest...