Word: fulbrights
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What had stirred the anger of these and other war critics was a column by Joseph Alsop praising Richard Nixon's "cool courage" in making the "lonely decision" to invade Laos. Alsop, a consistent advocate of strong U.S. military action in Indochina, declared: "Senator Fulbright and many of his colleagues, in turn, are downright eager to be proved right by an American defeat in war, and will loathe being proved wrong by U.S. success in Southeast Asia...
Leaving aside the specific attack on Fulbright, there is obviously much truth in Alsop's idea. To those who have long regarded U.S. involvement in the war as profoundly immoral, a "victory" would be a final outrage. In a way, that is one of the highest costs of Viet Nam-the violence it has done to Americans' sense of themselves as citizens. Long after the shooting finally stops, the U.S. will still be bedeviled by such recriminations about who was right or wrong, loyal or disloyal. Learning to live with the memory of Viet Nam may in some...
...Senate, J.W. Fulbright (DArk.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters that he has asked the State Department for the second time to supply details of South Vietnamese plans to grant offshore oil concessions to American companies...
...have been reluctant to take strong and effective stands against the war. Senator Muskie endorsed the Johnson war strategy by running on the 1968 Democratic ticket with Hubert Humphrey. Senator Kennedy, embroiled in his own personal and political problems, has been cautious in his criticism until very recently. Senator Fulbright, a lonely and powerful figure, has too often let his towering ego conflict with his political duty...
...meantime, the White House has sent over 600 editorial writers a Joseph Alsop newspaper column charging that Fulbright is "downright eager" for the Laotian operation to fail because it would prove he is right in opposing the action...