Word: fulbrights
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...Despite alleged grading flaws, the Naval Academy last year won six Fulbright scholarships. But, of course, regardless of scholarship, present-day educators are bound to take a dim view of any institution in which there has never been a campus riot or a dirty-speech rally. The academy's mission is to prepare Americans to defend their country at sea. If the professors will consult their history books, they will find that, judging from the Navy's battle record, the academy does a pretty good...
...question that I find intriguing," said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright,"is whether a nation so extraordinarily endowed as the U.S. can overcome that arrogance of power which has afflicted, weakened, and in some cases destroyed great nations in the past." To Fulbright, who in a recent interview made the extraordinary assertion that in Viet Nam the U.S. is waging war "against a little country" that is "obviously at our mercy," the answer was a foregone conclusion. "Gradually but unmistakably," he pronounced in the first of three lectures at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies...
Secular to Sublime. During a three-hour Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Administration's $3.4 billion foreign-aid bill, Fulbright asked Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara: "Isn't it a fact that when countries become very strong, they tend to become arrogant and to use that power in ways which have often resulted in war?" McNamara, whose responses were as precise as a punch card (see following story), answered: "Some have and some have not." "Could you give a very good example of some who have not?" persisted Fulbright. Replied McNamara: "I hope we are an exception...
Turning hastily from the secular to the sublime, Fulbright declared: "Every country has believed that God was on their side when they waged a war." Smiling faintly, the Defense Secretary observed: "I don't think we have brought God into our current military operations...
...Fulbright's certitude riled at least one fellow committee member. "We are not a military people," protested Wyoming Democrat Gale McGee, an Administration loyalist on Viet Nam. "I just cannot quite buy the allegation that we have heard here that great military power induces arrogance and self-righteousness. I resent that as an American...