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...according to Communist broadcasts, the recon planes were busy indeed, some of them probing points only twelve miles from Hanoi. Perhaps most important, the lull gave Johnson a chance to show such critics as Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright that they were all wet in arguing that a halt in the bombing might open the way to negotiations...
...Northwestern University Finnegans Wake Society, a discussion group of professors and friends, eleven of the 14 members reported they were going to Europe for the summer-and not paying for their trips. For intellectuals, the greeting "Good Day," it has been suggested, should be replaced by "Fair Fulbright...
...Three is that he can rarely depend on top congressional Democrats for the kind of support on Viet Nam that Bundy, McNamara and Rusk give him. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, for example, treads a far softer line, and only last week Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright was calling for a halt to U.S. air strikes. It was Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, in fact, who took to the Senate floor to defend Johnson's policy against Fulbright by declaring...
...responsibilities will be the chairmanship of the Fulbright Commission in France, which directs the program of official exchanges between the U.S. and France...
...Rebuffed, by a 9-to-4 vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, an attempt by Committee Chairman J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas to split the $3.38 billion foreign-aid package into separate economic and military bills-a tactic by which he hoped to pare away more easily at the military portion. But the committee also rejected a request by President Johnson for authority to engage in blank-check military-assistance spending in Viet Nam. The committee softened the blow by increasing the President's contingency fund, designed to meet unforeseen cold-war crises anywhere, to $100 million, twice...