FULBRIGHT'S FOLLY.....

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200920057-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: September 17, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POSE- ? SEP 17 1965
TIMES HE
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.01 Fuibright's Folly
An. Irresponsible Speech
...,~u -1 11,~ OV11i e. rrnck.L io even inure CONCRETELY, , Senator.
L bright's attack upon , the Wherever Senator Fulbright painfully awkward, how- ..Fulbright's departure from
basic honesty er of this Govern-/retains. Influence abroad- 'ever, Is the harm that' has the national and Senate con-'
ment's intervention in the
D o minican and this influence is sub- been done, for the first time ' selisus is easy to explain. At
R e p u blic M ~ ,.?, stantial both among the , irreparably, by Senator Ful- bottom, he admits that
i, a ainst thethere was some Communist
g hopefully neutralist-minded bright to himself as official-
possibility of and the automatic critics of participation in the Domini
a C o mm u- tF 34 any use of military force for ly the chief Democratic can Republic but he argues
nist take'Ys almost any reason-the po? foreign affairs ' spokesman ' that maybe it was not much
o v e r .'has'a sition of the United States . in Congress. and in any event nobody
created a has been dreadfully injured. 'Already, by personal proe- can say for certain that it
~
' would have been enough to,,
poignant cri- sy For that world still be- lamations of a personal,.
1? duct o fi man of the Foreign Rela-' ident Kennedy .in world ri- Ile honestly fears we are
A m e r !can White Lions Committee sneaks'' -cc no le th 41, h so preoccupied with the .
ss an e
a
sis for. the n * ` ieves, not unnaturally, that foreign policy which repeat. ? set up another Castro Cuba
orderly con,;;:. Senator Fulbright, as chair- wily harassed the late Pres in this hemisphere.
y ar
ss . ? Communist peril that we
foreign policy.. from within the high coup- President Johnson now, E are- adopting "reactionary"
Not in 30 years,' at leastr cils of this Nation. To much' Senator F u 1 b r I g h t had
r;has a chairman of the Sen-'.? of that world his embittered attitudes against good revo-
gravely weakened the effec- e
mittee so bitterly ranged Government's - course in judgment which his commit-
',himself against an`emergen- Latin America is' turning . tee had traditionally em-
cy action of , his . Nation state's. evidence and 'assist- bodied.
abroad and against` so vast` ing the, prosecution of his Now, in the'deep institu
.San.itized '-Approved
sad and self-evident truth,
however, is that nobody
hearing the ultimate and
terrible responsibility to see
to. it that there shall never
b
th
C
t
b
e ano
er
as
ro Cu
a can
stroyed his own voice as
'well. He will retain 'his post; afford the splendid luxury
1 , but in reality'he, can hardly. of this ivory tower view.'
1. speak hereafter for more Such a' luxury was, in fact,.:
than Senator Fulbright of adopted as to Cuba when
I
l
d
Arkansas. Ile can hardly,
speak for the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, for the Ad.?-'
ministration,. for the Demo-
cratic Party, or for any-
.thing save a? tiny minority
of the Senate in which 'he
sits.
For it is not simply with'
President Johnson and See-?
retary of State Dean Rusk
that Fulbright has broken,
He has also broken the un-
written rule of the game, a
t'ode which demands of
those holding high commit-
.tee chairmanships , - and
uniquely the chairmanship
of Foreign Relations-a de-
I'. gree of ' selfrestraint a n d
personal responsibility not
demanded of the rank and
file.
It is a tragic case of a
[' good man's private judg-
ment carried to such ex
t
?
.
remes as to become
alien
to the controlling spirit' and
action of the most tolerant
political forum in the world.
Senatorial privilege reaches
far. "Free speech" - any
Senator's undoubted right
to speak his full mind-has
no 'formal limitation. It
does, however, carry an un-.
alterable qualification aris-
ing from the plain facts of
life. A man may say what
i
o
Castro was coming up.
Its end was to carry the
whole globe to the edge of
nuclear holocaust. The
.frightful realities - of the
cold war do not' submit tot'
the perfectly, honorable, re-
laxed detachment of colic'.
.giate debating exercise.
i4b,'United Features Srndicate
he wishes;' but no man, not.
For Release,:
tryof what- he says:i 'N,
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