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...Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Government and International Affairs, Lyndon Johnson, venerably capped and gowned for the occasion, made a determined attempt to enlist the support of academe. At the same time, he delivered a few more oblique shafts at his chief tormentor, Senator William Fulbright, a whilom hero of the intellectuals...
...addition to using the established parties, Green suggested that Communists should not be afraid to use the statements of Democratic critics of the Johnson administration, like Senators Fulbright and Robert Kennedy, to apply pressure for withdrawal from Vietnam...
...Fulbright's fulminations exhausted even the legendary patience of some of his Senate colleagues. In a floor speech, New York Republican Jacob Javits finally expostulated that when Fulbright alleges that U.S. policy grows out of an "arrogance of power," he "challenges the very foundations and motives of U.S. policy without offering viable alternatives...
...heaviest artillery trained on Fulbright came, not exactly as a surprise, from Barry Goldwater. Addressing 3,000 delegates to the annual Republican Women's Conference in Washington, Goldwater declared that "no American has the right or the justification" to describe his nation as "immoral, imperialistic and arrogant...
...added: "That goes double for doing it in time of war and in a fashion that lends support and aid and comfort to our enemies. I don't care whether the American is a misguided Vietnik or chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." In fact, Goldwater continued, Fulbright's name "lends a phony official stature to his expressions of guilt that his country is militarily powerful enough to defend freedom...