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...Senator Fulbright [Jan. 22] was right about Egypt's Aswan Dam, he was right about the Bay of Pigs, he was right about the Congo, and his views about Viet Nam seem to be most realistic. He certainly is a great Senator, with great political insight and human compassion...
...Fulbright's Debate...
...Your cover story on Senator Fulbright [Jan. 22] was brilliant. I admire and respect him for his interpretation of foreign affairs. The world certainly needs men who educate themselves and others by "thinking those unthinkable thoughts...
...Senator Fulbright hopes for an improvement in the political and military situation, but does not offer a plan for attaining it. He opposes getting out of Viet Nam and opposes escalating the war. He wants to continue present policy, and hopes for an improvement in this situation that deteriorates daily. Evidently our chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has neither plan nor plot, but merely hope. I too hope. I hope that he and we will form a positive strategy and pursue it. But I am getting less and less hopeful...
...Fulbright would not necessarily disagree with that, although he and other Americans might disagree as to the meaning and extent of "responsibilities." His own formulation: "We need not toughness but tough-mindedness, that is, the willingness and ability to look facts in the face however bitter they may be, to appraise them at their true worth and then to act calmly, judiciously and determinedly...