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...surprise move yesterday, Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) read a statement by five Harvard professors condemning further escalation of the Vietnam war before Secretary of State Dean Rusk and a national television audience...
...Fulbright's action, a complete surprise to the five professors, came at the close of two days of public hearings on the war. Rusk attended the hearings to defend the administration's policy in Vietnam...
...Fulbright has a strong case, however, when he contends that the Administration, until it was forced to, at least, gave less than the full facts about the occurrences of August 1964. Certainly the Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Fulbright or anyone else, will not be inclined any time soon to accept the Administration's version of events-as it did when it approved the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. From his isolated position of a year ago, Fulbright is emerging as a leader of the Senate naysayers. The "Southern Barons" are with him because they are fundamentally opposed to presidential power...
...obvious doubts, neither of the sharpest of the senatorial critics of the Johnson Administration's handling of the incident-Wayne Morse and William Fulbright-questions that some sort of an engagement did take place on Aug. 4. Others are not so sure. Yet even if it is conceded that the attack did happen, many substantial questions remain unanswered. The Administration, argues Fulbright, "didn't have a clear call to war" and acted precipitately and with inadequate evidence in sending American planes to bomb North Viet Nam. Last week's testimony strongly suggests that the Administration did indeed...
...framers intended to give the President the power to meet a sudden attack without a congressional declaration of war." In addition, Congress has ratified the SEATO Treaty, which provides for aid to member nations threatened by external forces, and it has passed the Tonkin Resolution, which even Senator William Fulbright conceded at the time gave the President the authority to use such force as could lead to war. Many U.S. Presidents have had much less support for their actions, notably Lincoln, who blockaded Southern ports without congressional consent...