FULBRIGHT SHOWS DEEP SUSPICION OF JOHNSON AIMS

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 104
• Publication Date: July 27, 1966
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WASHINGTON
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STATINTL
CHARD WILSON
P=aalbroclht Shows Deep Suspicion of Johnson AhMs
The Idea of a Monroe doe- Fulbright's attack on John- some new disastrous adven- "It comes ai a great shock
'trine for Asia is so intrinsical- son's Asian policy shows no ture, which the Senate will to me to think that this con-
ly ab.yurd that President John- more than the depth of his find out about only after it cept of our role could be "
son, to say nothing of Senator unallayable suspicion that by becomes established policy. contemplated without consid-
to to eten to eration by the Senate.
J. William Fulbright, would stealth and deception Johnson l ii ralways t well
not give it a first thought. It is seeks to establish preeminent Sometimes ther thend.
there's a surprise. I do not say that I would
equally absurd that the United U.S. responsibility for Asia as There was in his speech oppose such a policy, but I-,
States would undertake to if it were a protectorate. challenging Johnson's Asian would like to study the matter
control the destiny of all?Asia This is not the aim of John- policy, thoroughly before I would be
and impose, in the words of son policy and those who think Fulbright said, in conclu- willing to support commit. ,
Fulbright, "American hege- so have been oversold by the sion, that he has had some ments to take this country,
mony" over this vast area of new-found enthusiasm of Vice "very serious" discussions into Asia in that fashion." 1
the globe. President Hubert H. Hum- with the President's adviser, None of this had much reality;
I, It was not surprising, there- phrey and the rationalizations' Rostow, on the subject of the after Moyers gave his inter
'.fore, that President Johnson of 'Walt Whitman Rostow, who U. 8. role in Asia. pretations of Johnson's views
sent Press Secretary Bill D. talks in normal conversation as "I can only say on my own and therefore Fulbright willl
Moyers charging out of his if he were dictating an article authority," the senator de- . not be distressed by having to
.office to refute Fulbright's for Foreign Affairs quarterly: Glared, "that my impression is decide immediately whether
absurdities in the Senate Rostow is 'a foreign policy that he (Rostow) believes it is or not Rostow is right.
before they could be printed adviser to the President. the proper role for this coun-. For all its absurdities; the
unchallenged in the morning ; Fulbright is far too sophisti- try to become a major Asian latest Fulbright foray has at
papers. Tie Pre dent was Gated to be misled by Hum- power, to create a balance least served the purpose of
coldly angry,-tnr.....; :ulbraght.? phrey's enthusiasms or Res there as opposed to China and clarifying the public's under.
had-hold-~rp. to,.ridiculp- pcJ?' tow's ruminations, but he Russia. standing of Johnson's aims
sarcasm idea$ apd,,concept$, offered some of their observa- "I am not saying that this and motives with respect to
rzat-' ;ohn'son ., iadtions in private and in public policy is necessarily wrong," Asia. They do not appear
"pfesied and does not believe, as proof that Johnson Is off on the senator continued different in principle, but only
greater in degree, than those.
of his predecessor, President
Kennedy. The emphasis is'
stronger, much Stronger. The;
aims are the same: The,
Mekong River development,
the Asian Bank, participation
in the economic progress of
Asia. .
Rather than establishing.;
U.S. h e g e m oar y in Asia?
Johnson seeks a peace of!
conciliation. between Commu-
nist and ' non-Communist
nations. He holds out his hand
Ito China as it never was held
out by his predecessors. He offers aid and assistance in
exchange for peace, and he
will not give up in Viet Nam.
What Fulbright, and those
who agree with him, do not
like is that Johnson will not
walk out of Asia and act as if )
it were some strange unknown
land under the rule of Ghengis
Khan,
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