Word: fulbrights
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Throughout the four-and-a-half-hour session, Sen. J. W. Fulbright (D.-Ark.) and other members of the committee criticized the invasion of Cambodia and its effects at home...
Even so, Nixon's failure to advise Congress before he decided upon the Cambodian mission seemed a gratuitous affront. Led by William Fulbright, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee immediately requested a meeting with the President. Nixon responded by inviting the committee over to the White House late one afternoon last week; but he also issued invitations to the less prestigious, less dovish House Foreign Affairs Committee, and scheduled an earlier meeting with the House and Senate Armed Services committees as well. Fulbright and other Senators such as Vermont's George Aiken had planned a confrontation. Nixon deftly transformed it into...
Signers of the statement-including John King Fainbank, Francis Lee Higgins Professor of History, and Edwin O. Reisohaner, University Professor and former Ambassador to Japan-released the text at a press conference yesterday after sending it to Nixon and Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Calming Effect. While the Administration agonized over a response to Lon Nol, it allowed the South Vietnamese to send about 1,500 captured Soviet-designed AK-47 automatic rifles to the Cambodian army. Senator William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee sought an explanation from Secretary of State William Rogers-and then, without waiting for his promised testimony this week, ordered two staff members to go to Cambodia to investigate any U.S. involvement. Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie complained that linking troop withdrawals to events in Cambodia and Laos was to "broaden our commitment" dangerously...
...George D. Alken (R. Vt.), a supporter of Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy, echoed Fulbright's criticisms. "Apparently Cambodia is regarded not as a foreign country but as a no man's land-free for all." he said...