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...past I have been an admirer of Senator Fulbright, and during Kennedy's Administration I expected him to be the Secretary of State. Since he started the Senate investigation of Viet Nam policy [Feb. 18], I have been shocked. He could not choose a more inopportune time. I fear that the bitniks-pacifists will really succeed in making null and void all pur efforts to settle the war. I suggest making him a four-star general of the bitnik-pacifist army, and sending all of them to Viet...
...deny so derisively the right of the Senate and the good American people to question our role in the Viet Nam war? What you do to Senator Fulbright is an atrocity. Senators Fulbright, Church, Gore and Morse appeal to a lot of us as sane, sober thinkers...
...million or more Americans who followed the proceedings each day on television, Chairman William Fulbright and his colleagues offered no compelling new arguments for or against the defense of Viet Nam. Yet the dispassionate eyes and ears of electronic journalism did help bring into focus the complex and contrasting personalities of those who chart U.S. policy and those who challenge it. On that score, at least, the hearings' anti-Administration sponsors last week could only regret the cameras' unblinking presence. For, unlike the previous week, when the committee's star witnesses-retired General James Gavin and Sovietologist...
...Fulbright pressed Taylor particularly hard, cutting him off and boring in with questions whose circumlocutory sentences and strangled syntax scarcely sounded worthy of a onetime Rhodes scholar. The Senator was especially dismayed by Taylor's suggestion that the Viet Cong might hope to win more in Washington than they could on the battlefield. Taylor patiently explained his thesis. Recalling France's "weakening will to continue the conflict" in 1954, he pointed out that "the home front and the political front had reached the conclusion that it was hopeless and hence that they must end the struggle very rapidly...
...Wallace Woodworth '24, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, has received a Fulbright award to lecture and conduct at the Royal College of Music in London during his sabbatical next year...