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...with 23 congressional leaders of both parties, Ike showed that he was pursuing peace on the home front too. He told his guests that he was wholeheartedly in favor of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's scheduled inquiry into the summit collapse. He agreed with Committee Chairman William Fulbright that there had already been too much talk about softness toward Communism-on both sides. "There are those who think I ought to be giving the President unshirted hell," said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson the next day, "but I was proud as hell of my country after that meeting...
While there still seemed a prospect of continuing the summit, Adlai Stevenson and Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Johnson and Rayburn in signing a cable to Ike, urging him to "convey to Premier Khrushchev the view of the opposition party in your country that he reconsider his suggestion for a postponement of the summit conference until after the national elections in this country." All this was both good patriotism and good politics. But before the week was out, even before the President returned to Washington (to be greeted by Mister...
...double crisis, the State Department moved rapidly. Acting Secretary Douglas Dillon wrote a letter to the Senate, pointing out the amendment's "harmful repercussions on U.S. interests in a wide area of the Middle East" and urging the Senate to scuttle it. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, damned the amendment as nothing more than a Zionist pressure group's meddling in U.S. foreign policy-a charge that was indignantly denied by New York's Kenneth Keating, a sponsor of the amendment, who protested that "our motives are pure." The Senate refused...
...Massachusetts' Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy. Here and there, a speaker attacked the "Warren" Supreme Court: Mississippi's James Eastland scornfully labeled the Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the 1957 Civil Rights Act as "crap" (though a thoughtful clerk recorded it as "claptrap"). Arkansas' William Fulbright, time-tested segregationist, took the occasion to lambaste President Eisenhower for turning the U.S. into "a 20th century Babylon, headless and heartless, a big fat target of the ably led Communist world and the clamoring, poverty-ridden new states...
Although Koch worked on the poem eight hours a day for four months (in Italy, "on my wife's Fulbright"), he is really just having fun. And he is always perfectly willing to let a chance rhyme divert his attention. While "snow From the high Himalayas comes unstuck," he writes. "Let's pause a moment, like a dairy truck." The next several stanzas, goofily irrelevant, are about a milkman...