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Bayou Bombast. Taylor, retaining his aplomb, betrayed the faintest sign of unease only when Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, the committee's leading supporter of the war, took the floor. After chiding Chairman Fulbright for "making speeches while the witness is answering," Long regaled the committee with pure bayou bombast. "Do you think we are the international bad guy or the international good guy?" he asked. Confronted with this particular blend of jingoism and ingenuousness, the sophisticated Taylor looked as if he wanted to hide. "I hope we are the international good guys," he said with a weak smile...
...uniformly unfavorable for China. "We are," he said, "a far better, greater military power. We have been preparing for this kind of guerrilla-war challenge ever since 1961. We have a vast stock pile of nuclear weapons, the ultimate deterrent of any great expansion." In similar vein, when Fulbright expressed apprehension that "the Chinese may feel very nervous about a war," Taylor retorted: "They should. If they ever got in a war with us, it would be disastrous for them...
Excused after 6½ withering hours, Taylor still looked morning-fresh. As he gathered up the neatly arranged pencils and index cards in front of him, a reporter asked Fulbright if he had got any satisfaction out of Taylor's testimony. The Senator's reply was, for a change, to the point...
Gentle Reminder. The following day could only have added to Fulbright's frustration. After the soldier-scholar came the scholarly statesman, Secretary of State Dean Rusk. In a 50-page opening statement that filched 43 minutes of air time from camera-covetous committee members, Rusk argued in dry, dispassionate terms that the entire structure of world peace is endangered by the Communist threat to South Viet Nam. "What we are seeking to achieve," he said, "is part of a process that has continued for a long time-a process of preventing the expansion of Communist domination...
Stop Shooting! Led by Fulbright, several Senators insisted that the U.S. had adopted an "adamant attitude" against a negotiated settlement of the war. Rusk, who might have been forgiven a moment of exasperation at that point, replied levelly: "We have given them practically everything but South Viet Nam in an effort to find a basis for peace. We are not asking them to surrender a thing except their appetite to take over South Viet Nam by force. Now, on that I suggest somebody had better be adamant...