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...nullification. The caucus pushed Thurmond aside, ordered the paper rewritten by more temperate Senators. The final version was written mostly by Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, with amendments by Florida's Spessard Holland and Texas' Price Daniel and polishing by Arkansas' highly polished J. William Fulbright, a liberal hero. At that point Strom Thurmond elbowed his way back onto the scene, posed for photographers dictating the final draft-with which he had nothing to do-to his wife seated at a typewriter...
...unusual open session of the Foreign Relations Committee primarily to find out about the off-again, on-again Saudi Arabian tank shipment. But it was obvious from one look at the squall line of Democratic liberals (Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Alabama's John Sparkman, Arkansas' Bill Fulbright) at the end of the committee table-busy conferring around piles of books, maps, clippings and notes-that much more than that was coming...
Soviet Dilemma. Before long Humphrey, Sparkman and Fulbright began to bear down on the new threat implicit in the changing Soviet policies. If they expected Dulles to be on the defensive, they were surprised...
...Fulbright: Do you think this last meeting which just ended . . . or that the speeches of Khrushchev and the other leaders in the Russian government would indicate a failure in their foreign policy...
...Fulbright: Was the news . . . that they were weak internally . . . borne out by the facts, do you think...