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...practice, of course, Lyndon Johnson can only work through consent and consensus, and even then his policies are resisted by many senior Democrats on the Hill-as Senator J. William Fulbright demonstrated last week by castigating the Administration's decision to land troops in the Dominican Republic (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...magnanimity, but primarily because he knew that the ultimate decision and responsibility were his alone. Mr. Schlesinger himself indicates that the New Frontier became easily exasperated at the "sentimentality" which questioned the principles and ends of American foreign policy. This may help to explain why the advice of Senator Fulbright and Ambassador Bowles was not taken, and may even throw light on why Mr. Schlesinger resorted to memoranda to record his own opposition...
Without an Unkind Word. On the Democratic side of the debate, Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made a speech from the Senate floor, lauding the President for his "steadfastness and statesmanship." Nevertheless, Fulbright said flatly that any "expansion of the war would be most unwise." Without saying a single unkind word about the Communist aggressors, Fulbright urged a negotiated settlement that would include "major concessions by both sides," insisted that the U.S. must somehow "offer the Communists a reasonable and attractive alternative to military victory...
...Fulbright suggested "a return to the Geneva accords of 1954, not just in their essentials, but in all their specifications." What did that mean? In terms that the Communists could conceivably consider an "attractive alternative," absolutely nothing. The Geneva accords set up the boundary line between North and South Viet Nam; the Communists have constantly and consistently crossed that line in military aggressions. The Geneva accords also envisioned the day when North and South Viet Nam might be able to reunite under a freely elected government. But a free election is hardly possible in a country overrun by Communist troops...
...Fought Back." In his weeks of patient, plodding work on the bill, Morgan only once lost his temper. That was after Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged that economic and military aid be handled as separate bills. The Administration sent Morgan a 68-page draft that went at least part way toward appeasing Fulbright. To Morgan, that was murder: he was convinced that many Congressmen would seize upon separate bills as an opportunity to kill economic aid altogether. "I fought back," he says. "I told the President point-blank that the day you take...