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...agree with Senator Fulbright, who suggests "summit conferences as a regular thing, maybe twice a year, and approach them without expecting them to settle anything" [TIME, March 16]. It is hard to see how summit conferences can make relations any worse than they...
Senator Dodd's "Stand Firm" policy against the Russians has reduced the mealy-mouthings of Fulbright to a "tale . . . full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...
...Added to that was the momentum of the Senate's victory, planned by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had even won over some Southern defectors (although not such diehards as Virginia's Harry Byrd, Mississippi's Jim Eastland, Arkansas' John McClellan and J. William Fulbright). House opposition was so weak, in short, that only a few recalcitrant Southerners took the trouble to harangue for the sake of the record. Swiftly the vote came to the floor-a rousing 323-89-and swiftly the word sped to the two Hawaiian officials holding the phones...
Asked Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright: suppose the U.S. sent an armed convoy through, the Communists stalled it by blowing up a bridge? Answer: the U.S. would repair the bridge. Asked Fulbright: "What would we do if they used armed force at that point to prevent us from repairing the bridge?" Said the President: "That is the $64,000 question...
...William Fulbright, new chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, endorsed "the principle of considering proposals for thinning out or disengaging." Such disengagement would have to be negotiated in summit sessions with Premier Nikita Khrushchev, thought Fulbright, since Russia's power structure makes him its only decision maker. So Fulbright called for ''summit conferences as a regular thing, maybe twice a year, and approach them without expecting them to settle anything. I always feel squeamish about always saying, 'No, no, no, we don't want to talk,' " said he. "It leaves the impression that...