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...chicken-fry circuit in the same $3 drip-dry sports shirt and rumpled slacks, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee donned a dark suit, striped tie, and vest and headed back to Washington. With 53% of the vote against a field of three opponents, J. William Fulbright had handily won renomination. Chewing laconically on a stick of Spearmint, he allowed: "I wasn't surprised. I had faith in the people of Arkansas...
...fact, Millionaire Fulbright had been so unworried by the outcome that he spent little for newspaper ads or TV time. Archsegregationist Jim Johnson, a two-time loser for the governorship and Fulbright's most visible foe, proved as inept as he was intemperate. Running against Fulbright's opposition to the Viet Nam war, Johnson branded the Senator a traitor and a coward. So virulent was Johnson's campaign that Arkansas Negroes, though well aware that Fulbright has never voted for a major civil rights bill, had nowhere else...
When the votes were counted, Fulbright totaled 218,222 v. 194,081 for his foes combined. Asked what conclusions President Johnson might draw from the outcome in a supposedly hawkish state, Fulbright grinned and said that it proved he was right: "The majority support my stand on Viet...
Nonetheless, the lackluster or extremist quality of his opponents is likely to ensure Fulbright a fifth term. One candidate, Foster Johnson, 53, campaigns wearing a sandwich board "so nobody will have any trouble knowing who I am." Another, Bobby K. Hayes, 37, preaches an isolationist populist program that includes such unlikely reforms as a $2.50-an-hour minimum wage and elimination of capital gains taxes. Fulbright's strongest adversary is former State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson, 44, an avowed segregationist whose extremism as the Dem ocratic nominee for Governor in 1966 helped make Winthrop Rockefeller Arkansas' first...
Though the A.F.L.-C.I.O. state political-education committee has grudgingly endorsed Fulbright as a lesser evil than Jim Johnson, a Negro leader has urged union members to join Negroes and white liberals in a protest vote for Bobby K. Hayes. The object would be to take enough votes away from Fulbright to force him into a runoff with Jim Johnson. What if Fulbright should lose such a runoff? Said another bitter Ne gro leader: "We don't care that much." Probably, though, a majority of Arkansans still do. What they want is more response from Bill Fulbright-perhaps some...