Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senators McGovern and Fulbright, all the Kennedys, and most Democrats...
...want to be resourceful," says Senator Robert Dole, 46. After last week, none of his colleagues doubts that he is. Seeking to seize the initiative on the peace issue, the Kansas conservative pulled off a legislative coup that left the Democrats dumbfounded. Aware that Senators J. William Fulbright and Charles Mathias were planning to propose the repeal of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, he stole the issue out from under the doves by offering it himself. Fulbright was outraged by the theft and voted against the repeal because the manner in which it was offered was "meaningless." To Dole...
...Colorado Springs Sun. Wife Kay will join him as women's editor, leaving Martha in the lurch. That will hardly bother the Woes-tendieks' new boss, Vegas-based Publisher Hank Greenspun. After Mrs. Mitchell's famous call asking the Arkansas Gazette to "crucify" Senator Fulbright for his Carswell vote, Greenspun wrote an editorial suggesting that she made the call after "toasting the ill health of every Communist-liberal Senator who voted against Carswell...
Listening to testimony by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Admiral Thomas Moorer, soon to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Senator William Fulbright declared: "I have been hornswoggled long enough!" Then he asked Moorer whether he knew of "any plans now to invade any other country in the foreseeable future." Senator Albert Gore accused Nixon of informing leaders of veterans' and retired officers' groups about his Cambodian plans two days before Congress and the nation were told on April 30. The White House denied it. Other, less vehement critics of the war were also...
...Fulbright then asked if this would mean beyond the 21-mile limit...