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...Staff Chairman Lemnitzer. CIA Chief Allen Dulles, as well as McGeorge Bundy, Paul Nitze, then Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs, Thomas Mann and three Kennedy specialists in Latin American matters -Adolf Berle, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and Richard Goodwin. There was also one outsider, Senator William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, whose support Kennedy wanted. After Bissell had completed his briefing and Dulles had summed up risks and prospects, Fulbright denounced the proposition out of hand: it was the wrong thing for the U.S. to get involved...
Rusk said he was for it, in answer to the President's direct question, but as would presently be manifest, he privately had no heart for it. Two other men among the President's senior foreign policy advisers, not present at the meeting, shared Fulbright's feelings: Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles and Adlai Stevenson. In deference to these views, Kennedy made two separate rulings which were to contribute to the fatal dismemberment of the whole plan. First, U.S. air power would not be on call at any time. Second, the B-26s flown...
...President Kennedy's $4.4 billion foreign aid bill. The key issue: the President's "fiveyear plan" giving the Administration borrowing authority to make longer-term commitments to needy nations. Opening the debate with an impassioned plea for approval of the Kennedy program. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman William Fulbright of Arkansas said that opposition to the proposal "just proves that we still are not very far away from tribal society. The only thing we ever do with enthusiasm is getting ready to bash somebody in the snoot...
...another Congressional action last week, Arkansas' J. William Fulbright and his Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved (10-7) Kennedy proposals to bypass annual congressional authorization for foreign aid, and to borrow $8.8 billion from the Treasury for a five-year program. The committee authorized nearly everything the President wanted in the way of funds this year; its tremendous influence on Capitol Hill likely will shove the foreign-aid bill neatly through both houses. With the big bill for foreign aid and another big vote for defense coming up, Jack Kennedy was just as glad...
...Hawaii's Governor William F. Quinn fired the entire board, appointed a new one headed by Hawaiian Pineapple Co.'s energetic President Herbert C. Cornuelle. Things began to move a bit. Though still without a plant of its own, the center scoured Asia for students, snapped up Fulbright rejects. The bait: two-year scholarships, valued at $9,000, including transportation, books, board and room, $50 a month spending money, and a two-month study tour of the mainland. When ground was broken last spring for the first center building, Lyndon Johnson himself jetted in to announce that...