Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after a visit with wounded Viet Nam veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, he appeared before a high-spirited crowd of 6,000 Democrats at a $100-a-plate dinner in Washington and unloosed an oldfashioned, stump politician's spellbinder-and, this time, some far broader barbs at Fulbright. When Johnson rose to speak, he glanced a dozen seats down the head table where the Arkansas Senator sat. Said the President: "I am delighted to be here tonight with many of my very old friends-as well as some members of the Foreign Relations Committee." Chairman Fulbright, wearing a thin...
Spreading the Word. For their part, Fulbright and his antiwar coterie in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee continued their assault on the Administration. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, making his eighth appearance before the committee this year, proceeded to outline-in extensive detail-the legal basis for the U.S. commitment in South Viet Nam. The Secretary's discourse ended in a hot-tempered exchange among Democratic members of the committee...
...that Rusk's explanation of Administration policies was a "one-way street" allowing no rebuttal. Ohio's Frank Lausche called that a "complete misstatement" and retorted-correctly -that the committee itself had brought up the subject, though the hearings were supposed to be limited to foreign aid. Fulbright insisted that "this morning is for the aid program," adding curtly that the legality of the war is a "very involved subject" that should be pursued later...
...Fulbright's committee also hammered at Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who testified for the third time in ten weeks. Unperturbed under needling from Morse, McNamara reported that 3,234 Americans had been killed since 1961 in Viet Nam, and some 15,000 wounded. But without those sacrifices and the great increase in U.S. forces there, he declared, "the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese would have won. They would have slaughtered thousands, probably tens of thousands, of South Vietnamese, and all of Southeast Asia would be in a turmoil." As for the bombings in North Viet Nam, which reached...
...subject of brothels came up again last week-at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings-and again it was William Fulbright who brought it up. "I have been criticized recently for having cited a story from the New York Times," drawled the Arkansas Senator, adding blandly that "the word which seemed to be so offensive was not of my origin-that Saigon was an American brothel." However, said Fulbright, "I did inquire some-from men who had been there in our aid program-and by and large they confirmed...