THE FULBRIGHT SPEECH

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• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
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• Publication Date: March 30, 1964
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AND TINIIS HERALD MAR 3 0 1964
~ ~ ~~ ?~ ~ e o o By Roscoe Druniniond
The Fulbright Speech
A NEW FORM. of bipar-
tisanship in foreign policy
is breaking out in Wash-
ington-bipartisan criticism
water,, Richard Nixon and
most of the other Republi-
can presidential candidates
have been focusing upon
U.S. difficulties abroad and
for several weeks have been
chipping away at U.S.'policy
-with no great effect.
But now five leading Dem
ocratic Senators Ernest
Gruening of Alaska, Frank
Church of Idaho, Wayne
tudes. It is
beginning to
5raise m o r e
than eye-
brows at the
White House.
Gov. Nel-
son A. Rocke-
feller, Sen.
Barry Gold-
of long-held.
Ad in inistra-
can be a healthy debate- far more fundamental than
and a clarifying one. It is the Republican criticism.
the best way to get a na-
tional consensus.
One. of the arresting as-
pects of this bipartisan
criticism of foreign policy is
that most of the Repub-
lican , critics support the
Johnson Administration ob-
jectives but criticize execu-
tion, while most Democratic'
critics dissent from som f
e o
TIIOUGII I deeply dis-
sent from the proposition
that we should relax' our
pressure on Castro, it seems
to me that Sen. Fulbright
has, on other points, de-
livered a timely and useful.
ly provocative speech, He is
absolutely right on his two
central themes:
1. That, with Peking and.
the President's main ob
r ""? munist' world apart, the
Nixon. Goldwater, Rocke- Russians may well find it
feller and Pennsylvania's;'_ in their national interest to
Gov. William W. Scranton mute the cold war and
all support the presence of work ' more cooperatively
U.S. forces in Viet-Nam, with the West.
favor doing more. 2. That it would be un-
Gruening, Morse, Church wise for the United States
and with some ' qualifica- to remain so locked into its
tions Mansfield would like past thinking that it threw
to see us get out of Viet- away the chance to explore
Nam. and respond to the oppor-
The Republicans think tunities that new develop-
that the presence of a L'Ios- , meats in the Communist
jority Leader. Mike Mans- . regime in Cuba is i.ntoler-
field of Montana, as well as able and that we ought not
powerful Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee-are all
criticizing the Administra-
tion's conduct of foreign af-
fairs as unrealistic, ill-con-
the Cubans recover their
right to have a government
by consent of the governed.
The Democratic chairman
of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee thinks that
"If we are willing," says
Sen. Fulbright, "to re-
examine the view that all
Communist regimes are
alike in their threat which
they pose for the West-a
view which had a certain
validity in Stalin's time-
then we may be able to
exert an important in-
fluence on the course of
events within a divided
Communist world."
This is sound. It reflects
deveionment_a nnw in 4h,,
The effect of these speeches satellite regime in Cuba is
Is to inject foreign policy at quite tolerable and that we
Democratic initiative into should relax efforts tt;' un-
the oncoming presidential seat Castro.
.,,.. YUL
I SEE NOTHING wrong . Democratic c r i t i c i.s m of firmly established. It is good
with that. A presidential Johnson Administration for-. to. have Sen. Fulbright
campaign is the most cC- cign policy=which was also stirring . u1 the policy-
fective instrument we. have Truman, Eisenhower and makers-and the country.
for public education. This Kennedy foreign policy-is 0 1964, Publishers Neq?spaper Syndicate
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