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SENATOR JAMES WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, Democrat of Arkansas, 49, onetime Rhodes scholar, author of the Fulbright (exchange scholarships) bill, and father of the 1943 Fulbright resolution, which committed the U.S. to the incipient U.N. organization...
Increasing Impatience. After half an hour of back-and-forth before the committee, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright peered at "Beedle" Smith and asked: "Look here, General, speaking as an official of the Republican Administration, which do you prefer, the Richards amendment or this?" With soldierly precision Smith replied: "There just isn't any question about it. We prefer the Richards amendment...
Without another word, Fulbright moved that the committee substitute Richards' amendment for Knowland's. Voting with Fulbright for the motion were Republicans Smith, Alexander Wiley and George Aiken, Democrats Walter George, Theodore Green, John Sparkman and Guy Gillette. On record against it went Republicans Knowland, Homer Ferguson, Bourke Hickenlooper and William Langer and Democrat Mike Mansfield. Dulles had won his point, over the opposition of his own party's Senate leaders...
Some Democratic Senators, e.g., Arkansas' William Fulbright and New York's Herbert Lehman, promptly rose to rebuke Knowland for his stand. But Minorety Leader Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat who seldom hesitates to support a Republican position if he believes it is best for the country, stood firmly beside the majority leader. Said he : "The American people want no appeasement of Communists. The American people will refuse to support the United Nations if Red China becomes a member...
...month later in a Senate committee hearing, McCarthy became embroiled in a vigorous argument over the grants with Senator J. William Fulbright, author of the act which established the fellowships. While Fulbright agreed that admitted Communists should not receive the grants, he struck back at McCarthy with the statement. "I can well imagine intelligent people refusing to answer because they have been the object of indignity...