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Congress has drawn a bead on the issue of its own prerogatives. "Do you question Congress's right to bring back forces from Europe?" Senator William Fulbright demanded of Rogers at one point last week. "We're opposed to arbitrary limits," Rogers replied. Nixon in turn is opposing withdrawals partly as a matter of presidential pride and power. But the issue goes far beyond that...
...library will be formally dedicated May 22 in the finest Johnson tradition with 2,400 guests due to watch the ribbon cutting, then file into Memorial Stadium for a barbecue. Invited guests include President Nixon and Vice President Agnew, but not War Critic, Senator William Fulbright, or Former Press Secretary, George Reedy, whose book The Twilight of the Presidency reportedly offended L.BJ. Lyndon Johnson may belong to history, but some grudges apparently...
...last-ditch attempt to put his idealism to work in the U.S. In his senior year at Berkeley, he earned the highest grade-point average (3.9) in the College of Letters and Science?then decided that he had become enslaved to "American fanaticism" about achievement. On a Fulbright scholarship at Oxford's Balliol College, he earned a doctorate with a dissertation on The History of St. Anselm's Theology of the Redemption in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. But his discontent with the U.S. deepened...
Communist Humbuggery. The dispute between the U.S. and Israel is growing bitter in other ways. Last week at Yale University, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright delivered a severe criticism of Israel's intransigence. By constantly reminding Washington about Soviet aid to Egypt, said Fulbright, Israel was resorting to "Communist-baiting humbuggery" in an attempt to "manipulate U.S. Middle East policy." The U.S., Fulbright went on, is "highly susceptible" to hints of Communist danger, "rather like a drug addict-and the world is full of ideological pushers...
...once, Fulbright's views pretty well coincided with those of the State Department...