Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Government and International Affairs, Lyndon Johnson, venerably capped and gowned for the occasion, made a determined attempt to enlist the support of academe. At the same time, he delivered a few more oblique shafts at his chief tormentor, Senator William Fulbright, a whilom hero of the intellectuals...
...other hand, he continued, in a thinly veiled critique of Fulbright's power-is-arrogance thesis: "Strident emotionalism in the pursuit of truth, no matter how disguised in the language of wisdom, is harmful to public policy -just as harmful as self-righteousness in the application of power. The responsible intellectual who moves between his campus and Washington knows above all that his task is, in the language of the current generation, 'to cool it'-to bring what my generation called 'not heat but light' to public affairs...
...addition to using the established parties, Green suggested that Communists should not be afraid to use the statements of Democratic critics of the Johnson administration, like Senators Fulbright and Robert Kennedy, to apply pressure for withdrawal from Vietnam...
...heaviest artillery trained on Fulbright came, not exactly as a surprise, from Barry Goldwater. Addressing 3,000 delegates to the annual Republican Women's Conference in Washington, Goldwater declared that "no American has the right or the justification" to describe his nation as "immoral, imperialistic and arrogant...
...added: "That goes double for doing it in time of war and in a fashion that lends support and aid and comfort to our enemies. I don't care whether the American is a misguided Vietnik or chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." In fact, Goldwater continued, Fulbright's name "lends a phony official stature to his expressions of guilt that his country is militarily powerful enough to defend freedom...