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...both Houses of Congress moved toward an overwhelming vote against his position on the war in Viet Nam, Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, characteristically seized the occasion to advocate a new and radical departure from U.S. strategy. What Fulbright proposed last week was a grand design to settle the future of Southeast Asia by means of a solemn accord with Communist China to neutralize the entire area. "Unless," he said, "we are prepared to fight a general war to eliminate the effects of Chinese power in all of Southeast Asia, we have...
...Fulbright even argued that the presence of U.S. troops in Viet Nam is comparable to the secret Soviet buildup of intercontinental ballistic missiles in Cuba in 1962. Total withdrawal of U.S. troops over the years would be desirable, he contended, because "our presence itself is the principal reason for much of the activity, the insurgency, the energy and the willingness of the enemy to sacrifice...
TIME'S Viet Nam coverage has been nothing less than outstanding, the story on Dean Rusk [Feb. 4] nothing less than just. Now, after a week of Fulbright's foreign relations circus, I think we can all agree with Truman's view of the man as "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b...
...accuse Senator Fulbright of a "blind spot" in not accepting the myth of a monolithic-belligerent Communist bloc is to reveal your own. That Communist doctrine is neither monolithic nor necessarily nor always belligerent is no longer an opinion. It's a fact! I know of no reputable scholar who would argue otherwise...
...members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee followed its televised hearings on Viet Nam more closely than the junior Senator from New York, who is not even a member of William Fulbright's debating society. As the interrogation droned on, Robert F. Kennedy restlessly paced his Washington office, occasionally caught himself talking back to the screen. Bothering Bobby was his belief that Administration spokesmen were dodging a key question: What role should the Viet Cong play during a peace conference? And afterward...