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Introduced by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, the Senate's foremost dove, and co-sponsored by Georgia's Richard Russell, its most powerful hawk, the measure had wide backing, reflecting the upper body's atavistic yearning for a role it thinks it once had. If passed, the resolution would have been no more binding on the President than one asking Americans to be kind to dogs. It would nonetheless have been a rebuke to him, and this consideration swayed some members of the Fulbright committee last week...
...York City's Mayor John Lindsay seem to be getting, and turning down, more invitations than any other Republicans, although former Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater and Gadfly William F. Buckley Jr. are still much in demand. With the possible exception of Senators Wayne Morse and J. William Fulbright-both harsh critics of U.S. policy in Viet Nam-no Democrats are hot on the campus circuit...
Unanswerable Question. Dirksen called the war "a Red threat," involving Moscow and Peking as well as Hanoi. But Fulbright insisted that Russia, at least, was growing less belligerent. Otherwise, he said, disingenuously, "I do not know why she withdrew those missiles in Cuba...
...Fulbright maintained that Dirksen wanted to turn Viet Nam into a permanent U.S. base and that "a nuclear exchange" was bound to result. Dirksen disagreed. "I cannot believe that mankind has so sloughed off its compassion and its common sense as to get into that kind of a hole-yet." But, replied Fulbright, if the Communists "are as dangerous a menace as you would lead us to believe because of Viet Nam, then surely we could have no assurance that they would not use nuclear weapons." Retorted Dirksen: "They know that nobody ever won an earthquake, and they...
...debate came down to the inevitable and all but unanswerable question. "You have been quarreling for the last year about the conduct of the war," Dirksen told Fulbright. "What does the Senator want to do?" Fulbright called for a reconvening of the 1954 Geneva Conference, followed by free elections throughout South Viet Nam and a U.S. withdrawal. However, he failed to note that Russia, as co-chairman with Britain of the Geneva Conference, has steadfastly refused to reconvene the talks...