FULBRIGHT'S IDEAS ECHOED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100890013-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: February 25, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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friendly to the chairman of the' tat "all isms change," rev- don't know what else to do.
y 1 erred the accusation the sen- `? these questions are ripe for de- ? Meanwhile the President's'
Senate Foreign Relations' Com-, ator finds hardest to bear: eision,? the public will have attitude has hardened further.
ittee.
m e?
The, professor lamented that ? been clued in by his hearings The, bombings have been r
While it was obviously grati-? "immensel important deci-
fin y p and . will make their' opinion sumed and with now intensity.
Y g to Senator Fulbright to' lions }lad been. taken without i .known to. the Executive No The olive. branches have all.
hear his own ideas eloquently; congressional debate or public partment:.It Is,-of course, the .withered.
echoed by brilliant scholar-dip-j debate Sometimes I think
lomats like Princeton's George,: great decisions are made not -14--+-ONW- - ?-' ----?-~ "
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WASHINGTON The ]at- Henry Steele Commager, the ~der the loose heading of "Asia, long way around, but says the
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win 0. Rciscnauer, he had not
reason to think that their views;
were having any more impact:
on the Commander in Chief
than Fulbright's own passion-}
ate protest against the war. i
Neither the chairman nor they
witnesses were bound by the!
subject of the hearings. Sonic-'
times F u l b. r i g h t simply?
thought aloud. When retired'
these extraordinary positions,'
then our pride is involved and
"
our self-interest is. involved.
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The senator is determined to)
try to avert any more "absents
minded decisions," if such'
these were, and, he quizzed his I
articulate witnesses about then
Gen. James P..Gavin was be-l' ment ever comes in Vietnam,;
fore him, the chairman was! about, the most fruitful atti.
reminded of what another gen-,, tude towards China and other]
crAl had said aboutthe ' .t__a. __
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"I think Eisenhower was+
right about the military - in-1
dustrial complex 'taking con-'
trol," he said, "and I don't:
know what to do about it." I
Ile mused about the vast,'
amounts of money.being spent i
~? by government agencies to
propagandize Americas at
home: the CIA -dole to stu
dents, the fir ITmade by the; .
Department of Defense, thei
books subsidized by the U. S.
Information- Agency.'--
But even if he thinks thati
the President Is- not listening,
Fulbright hopes that the coun-,.
try is, and he believes the',
hearings are .educating the!
Ai public.
? Besides education, his motive
Is expiation. Sen. Fulbrighti
finds it hard to forgive him-i
?`. origins and justice of the war``
' escalated the commitment to',
400,000 ground troops, and ?it`
was indeed too late.
lie is mortified still that the'.
academicians began -their
teach-ins during the winter of
1; 1965, a full year before the,;
f' Senate Foreign Relations starto
ed its inquiry. '
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