FULBRIGHT'S EXAMPLE

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000200930078-6
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November 17, 2016
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April 5, 1999
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78
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March 16, 1963
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WASHINGTON POS '.' TIMES HERALD MAR 1 6 1963 Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : SC'-RffL In Perspective Fuibright's 1 xa nple wr. ONE;.DE,, the penalties fb'r an abseie' from Washington Is that so ,many events have 'vanished .beyond recall' even ; would :.have By Ma Senator Fulbright has raised Ways' w l dig Senator the public debate Jo give a Fulbrightba$ usually on the fair hearing to new ideas. big issues been ahead of pub- With Thoreau, he believes' ,hc opmio~i ." lie was think- that it is never too late to ingof the'ptoblems' of peace ht u ull c g a give up our prejudices. Men when otherswere st ... in thia`toil s' of war. He fore. itncu vu .,. ox reason are itevca ~;aaaa.auu.a cuss them a 'the President into in public life and are never ]! o r t.ulrat ly, bte partneftip on. the chore needed than they are l4%d themes of forei& tiol some -, events last be' on d5 now. icy. He organized support for their i o u r;, -SINCE THE WAR the Sen- the United Nations when iso- acnd helps to ate Foreign Relations Corn- lationism was still a smold- in o 1 ct?_.t h e mittee has had four im- ering force. He wanted the slow q'hanges portant chairmen. Ina form- Marshall Plan to lead to the econom of ern d of American i e C l o of .final Freedman alive per some urope Headvocat d 1 E p o 1 i cy In policy Senator Vandenberg form of political union if the this ,e gory, beyond doubt, -provided an essential link be- members of NATO were. to belan?the book containing tween the past and theu share an abiding purpose. It a sel pn from the public ture. Under the guidanc 9f is a proud 'record, and it ?_ ? t drift Senator Fiil~right. Senator Connally the C~pln - m o a o Our tl1n'ks . muse go . to x#11 I mittee N eeaa. ~ '~' on` the turbid stream of :Karl ,". M er, the editor, every ma7or ehate on for- events but having a' clear goal r. falter #i plrfdhn eign a' is. Without SepA- and making copstantly for it. and t, fill' for hf =io and tar it Would have Even AS A FINAL laurel-wreath, ,nds and` ,admi'Crs been _im ossibie for Mr. Dill tr r p{ S,epatbr"';Fulbright must les to deep Congress wider= 'Itshould_b'e added that he has read this book with a sense his spell. Now; With Senatorr not always been most wrong It often is held as a re- and astonishment. He is . so Fulbright, we are watching a when his advice his been neg much wiser and more ;gen new tradition in the makin', proach against Congress that erous !ban we had ' allowed Senator',.Fulhright has - ri leeted,. His unavailing wis- it has dwarfed its leaders into ourselves t_c believe. There ambition to be the agent of dom when he stood against servants of a party i1stead are, of course, some blots on the White Rouse or the State the Cuban invasion is a title of letting, them become the his record. His ,conduct in Depart At.' .or does he guides fff the Nation. This the Little Rock controversy try to;ipose his own author- of glory in itself. charge it. ,too violent; dnci Committee. He ' df one were to give a single sweeping 'to be either accu? requires no' eulogy, -,and his ity g , brief to the Supreme Court' remains a free It despite passage as an expression of rate or convipciri ., Senator on segregation is no heroic the power gxt office and the central theme of Senator Fulbright cal7rb taken as a model of the befte'r members document. But those . who his loyalty to the Democratic Fulbright's philosophy, per of Congress who trust the seek perfection should look Party: It i this freedom baps one would be forgiven public; when.it.has the facts neither at h nor a les c11 ex `tai s influence. ' for choosing this declaration far more than they do the men. It is enoug~r?tt at '111 on "Me country: from an address in 1961: unexamirlied decisions of even a nation must , be, as -1L was also believes that the public to Woodrow Wilson, to make, must suspend judgment until a society instead bf a set of it knows the facts, must never barbarians out of they Bern ,! sharpen personal feuds, and ments of the world.' Ariitance- must always resist the folly ment - toward this obltshtive' of giving Sir? answers to will- require persistent effort complex questions. Armed in the face of inevitable frus- with this faith,. he is unable to trations. More fundamental- have-' more respect for the ly, it will require the culti- self-right ouspess of public vation of qualities that are opirifon than'he has for the associated with maturity rafh-, clangorous simplicities of the er than youth: qualities Of, fanatic. Perhaps, this inde- wisdom, as well as' resource pendence of spirit explains fulness; persevering determi why he has kept so many of nation, as well as righteous the pieties of scholarship dedication; arid, perhaps most amid the rancors and vanities eed'of bringing Con, Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000200930078-6