THE SPEECHMAKER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200920040-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: October 2, 1965
• Content Type: SPEECH

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, policy, Senator J. William Fulbright has been rewarded doom.
with a congressional resolution compounding the error leader but as an elder. statesman-without-portfolio, an
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and doubling his troubles. A few days after Fulbright .Arkansas de Tocqueville whose jo
delivered a characteristically long, intelligent, and elo- . policy' but to report it, and by reporting, influence in'
quent condemnation of American intervention in the some small way its future course.
Dominican revolution, the House i of Representatives He has no taste for the heat of battle or the pitch of
assed (312 to 52) a sentimental endorsement of:armed crisis. "At. this time of relative calm," his speech be-
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intervention anywhere in Latin America in the event ?gan, "it is appropriate, desirable. and, I think, necessary.;
of "subversive domination or the threat of it. " The to review events in the ,Dominican Republic and the
rebuke had the tacit approval of the State Department US role in those events. The purpose of such a review
and bipartisan support of the House leadership. - and its only purpose - is to develop guidelines for
It is not unusual for Fulbright to find himself on the ; wise and effective policies in the future." Fulbright re-
short side of ?a six-to-one vote,. and in his own way he moved himself as much as he could from the . onus of
derives a certain moral superiority from being a minor- personal criticism: President Johnson's decision to send,
ity of one. "More than a hundred years ago, Alexis de Zo,ooo troops to Santo Domingo was''understandable
Tocqueville warned' us of the dangers. that might under the circumstances. There were "no easy choices..
be expected from the tyranny of. the majority.' Nonetheless, it is the task of diplomacy to make wise
This is the -tyranny that presently is growing in our decisions when .they need' to be made and US diplo-
country;' Fulbright said ir4 a doom-laden' speech on macy failed- to 'do so in the Dominican crisis."
McCarthyism x'. years ago.- Tat, week, privately, he The blame could not be placed on.the President but'
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