FULBRIGHT - THE VOICE OF THE OPPOSITION

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
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• Publication Date: June 4, 1967
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asT,apprfer.;andgsocate editor a.
of my criticism of American policy so yeqs
is iteither the duty nor the riaht of the UnitedStates e
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for the revolutionary and otenti"11V
1atrirk, Owens.- labor writer for the Free
Fx ,, tot acquainted with Sea- I,- W., Fulbrig4t
of the Arkansas Gazette at Little
Rock and as executive editor of
the Pine Bluff (Ark.) Commer.
cial. In this searching and reveal.
ing report, Owens tells of the
thinking behind Fulbright' s
emergence as a full-fledged critic
;c warms Y trlam and. ex-
arc e,. pctsonality and ppliti-
this unusua .,,c mplex, ,man..
Patrick J. Owens ''j1jri-17U"
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bright, e t inking mans omas
AS_ t h' t` ~`~tt P i Y and satiititioned,' apparently, by give the widen a free hand- on foreign
r
ASHINGTON - J. William* b'ul- of t teat reua, uia ripe ulr fh, Fulbright O>ltce argued that the
h h Th decry a war orde y a presstdent', + 109J 9 egaoii the country
re, is. otl o save R is -u~
y pubic opinion?
oli cy. Nhe has had to abandon his awn
ohm 'itself. But fie is reluctan9 to e ,bat is he ttying:to do' .r uasivethesis. ('ie has also tended to
thou. t a coma scold.
As c$airmaYiaf the Senate 17areign Reta- dmYia~iistrate ids s~ouilness, I 'Vietnam, the
L ~ `L with a years in "Congress Bony nymitt e, Fulbright hanks as the President has 'been effective denxonstrat-
beh3nd llim, t junior senator from lea domes c trig of war in Viet- ing that he can get a free had on an issue
Arlo; nnsas is Ixio y frQu i col i na hats' thertl e ader of the hnation's when
the
IILBRIGHT 1 f, felt for.
unpopular
sideton 1 issue of w and
don
a Not in this century, and ldoan.in history, ! ~s close ..emotional, &c t to' Lynyears
pef:ee. has a public official- cif h"S` rank taken a Johnson.
He has not mov 'fast, or necet1~ar ly , s tiara opposed to the national consensus ile was never wholly tntpressed with the
$ e g)itxer surrounding Jc91m F. Kennedy. He
with much enthusiasm He is nQt at all sure
~*
, that he'-likes what ris diss?entr on Vietnam What price has he paid, ands he willing th t him stronger on style, than sub-
has done to his personal situation in war- to pay fdr )ifs rebellion? ~` st e and he found the e a bit tieon lit
tit h Washington 'or-''to his political uture fa own rather book tastes
in +te5rkansas. He `O 4ried vtl y hard n' " T>E Is gxp~ert agreement yfliat il'u1" e i .. - . - -.,'".` -: fabled.
L igon army as expressions oz a atmpte force which has challenged President John- BUT JORN9&iwas the ablest politician j
de9t re to return to the faiu. a as asaxi._ do the- nation's most important public
of his times. The'h{Lts W Texas which riur=
qiphne of life in
P Vkle puritan (its
tmQ
F
p
drive
red him are a dav's
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a
and
t U the chaos
H i as enslave ut
thwet had
bright' arks. h t mutual ~ shared
co pli
had little visible
s
of life i n a 'Ii "So little vi
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st 'd y eft an the H e kee s de it th nee "`MVP see Ho Chi has a , t d grant g
while
p p l; about, e t succor the poor
bud _iuyen Cao FY- as a efen`er g
~..,..,., .,., d 1'reaident ollnson keeps escalating it. develonui the steno and enricYirai" the
aye see fine vier as U10is puryei e Mi'. Johnson- from taking a con-
and h anal as China u et Wt we see the p g trification to full develdpment of natural gas.
~essional blank check to aLatin-American What Fulbright, the disciple of Oxford's
Saigon government a ericta'a stalwart
y in A ril. don anti England's.idaologues, didn't know
in IJr` a
ate. '
all =: 0:.coinnlaans. a lit ingenuously, that Mr. was that Johnson hM .d only one teacher
~inu, hnson has heen able, to expand the f o government in e a crusty old to-
trooPs in "South Vie the real
ot a blank check yir $ r d (Prof
)
r because $e
Vi
t
.
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nam wa
agg:resslar tbhile a hundre of
Mat of Congress on .that` ieue in August of
aiiawi
fk: Tex
1= ` ixi iptn ?by North Vietnamese PT boats., in nis tater years successively an exponent
Fla ' }~ s Ills __STA11kY ~i+ ? of "fight Rus 'e now" and fight China
constituency back home, by potential politi- ~tLcbrighttsaid the otereda . , checks, i now" as= U-A. policies.
cal Challengers of awesome guile and fierce presidei t Johb son is not., a man to brook it. would, be easy to make too much of Prof.
patriotism. lie himself is a zealot for reason position ;silently. A year a.go with Ful Greene were=not his rough-hewn convictions
and the open mind. The spirit of liberty, he.
s ~I imrrorecf in Lyndon ohnson'a
#bh Letirned"Hand the s ir{f Cc i~ several chairs from him at a so ; fii itiitu
ro ei
olic If Johnson never swallowed
b
lie
n p
vesw
e
.? _,, p table the President
that is nqt too sure that it is right. ,
Lac' ' era _azxd thre of thQ old P 'foe' the two men were close,
And so he adds i Whatever the fault''.
ittcalributjatft `nervous e'i11es' 9~aredoufiivest's"lireva-Ii uie
may bg , en our side, the gi eater fault is s ` ? abouf Am world
4. tjue ned th"e,tva 6. a ri' an erica's role in a
powerful e1 i'erent'by u e efts better Jon ill seek ou Fulbryg f $'l irtg : Eck 16 Washington a few weeks
--1969b tiler a ii5 eat Little Rook; Fulbrigh~t
able to takeits initiati ve s~owing scarfs' th
na
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m i nanimity, b u t wee a , not doing so, a don%,think G P s a eud," gu i ?Y reo fled `~ ` w enthusi m he had y
u rtnted'iri Ameca~"li sfnry'~ ference." he said. The differeltcels between Johnson
a crab d state that 'lias`heen sending
n a ?~,. fighter by to riperanient.
him. to the United.States a since 194 ,PT }S FULB GAT is a trim man (170'pounds j.
~~h,~~g- ,n,i?nrohie Aa the next I "a little ie?eer than ayeraee(5.10) with
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 Thispicture hangs on the wwitC o Sen. 7u!bri it s o ice. The man'
is the President, an t scribbled at the bottom is from
. e s facing ?ee 'n `r-"ePa hi ~tT'r s 'S-?"> t?t '"
'TRY RM! 7 c
' that the r uibrlguts were
now a a ..,.fly in'ton,.. They did seem. - ' FULBRIUHT is not exactly a con-
it railroad, a bank 5 _a u a i is a fav rite
F F 'D -- to z ti
A.' er 'i u iaa IMF a-Pt of; oa, " h.g e ._ c-Rote F G.
"is srace between education eri$'
nttmtirin,o but d"T M ae m-TIL~h 'U~f'
tyaiyth1n pay asst v ...me ..... t -?_
L'POxts,llt,pperson in Nor&west Arkansas, andi - country , Bulb1'iSht has said several
she published her vievd` daily in the paper.l - times, ever taxed Itself Into bankruptcy
Fitibright went, 'inevitably, to the uni-J paying for. schools. He has made clear
versit . Almost as inevitably, he was ,-that he was willing to try.
very "big man on a ca.inpis his mother long) It world be pleasant to report that Ful-
had shepherded. bright has llved~s lifg above the political
"lie lk?d like" e owned the place, b ttl s 'Grath that he has voted the
and he d of did 'recalls a contemporary. hando s o the oil Wien and cut the es-
,*`" sen polftjcaI"deals with .the courthouse
A TLS SCIIOY:A"l it Oxford, Fulbright.: rings tha do ninate Arkansas politics. But
mus on Locke, i-iob`bes and Mill - the he has dohs so with a certain lordly and
giants of'English Roli`Jf'al theory. He toured redemptive contempt.
Euroipp' as tile, prott a df M. W. Fodor, a And Fulbright has, by some accident of
distinguished foreign correspondent. He luck and personal style, risen now to a rev.
came back 'to Ira efltaville to teach law ;red position beside the Arkansas Razor-
at the university a# er S-Istop in Washington' wicks football team : as a symbol to dirt-
to picll up a 1 dejree, a wife, and brief poor Arkansas of Its better and successful
experienne as 1Sea1 lawyer, self.
He was, president' of the university at-M., "Arkansas has two things it's proud of -
out at 3$r Miss Roberta having slapped no 4 Fulbright and the Hawgs William '. Rock,
on a, new gotsel 'r, Homer Adkins, by op- long the state's director of industrial de-
pos'Cng him izY tale paper. Fulbright ran, velopment, once said.
for Congress " al host oil a dare, and of * * *
coarse 'Won. Twp years later, he was in FULBRIGHT'sCA1 ;,FAR has beell_Xnarked
the Senate, b sing Miss Roberta's old foe, by indiscretion W4 foresight which have
Holy Homer, foir the job. largely obscured his role, up to 1965, as an
ii rat ins an 1I usual voice, Half Ozark Establishment -figure.
and h Oxford ,political thought is ' As a freshrnaq congressman, he was able
hybrid, oo: "' to get a brief resolution passed in 1943 which:
is not r' a 4a dissenter, a crusade oznmitfed the United States to the principle
lZation of the Mc arthv
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\t, Fulbright was deeply offended by Mc-
C arthy's efforts to impose ideological con-
.frmity on the United States in the name of
anti-communism.
The Vietnam war is, in his opinion, both
new kind of McCarthyism .ill attempt to
.e,lap "Americanism." on a auspicious world
try force of arms-and a product of the
8'?-andard domestic variety. _
FULRRIGHT has always been something
of a brooder. As the Vietnam war has cast
its growing shadow, he has become more
Not in years has he slept the whole night
through. Now his lonely brooding in the
night turns more and more on the reasons
.An austere, even unapproachable many
Fulbright also has reached out in a new way
Si[8denly, he is a man who will talk, and
can be talked to, in a way he never was
before.
.Much of this new kind of talk seems to
yGame to the surface against his better judg-
rnsilt.
_To a malt o has known him and studied
kim closelyy~for almost a decade. Fulbright
gives the impregsion of a thinker blinking
in daylight at heresies which coin; to him
unbidden enight.
.LONQ qi CIOUS of the Central In
Servic Committee.
=file; Fulbright. joined the
operations surfaced at either
0o5tire this winter and spring that
,associations and a variety bf other
shocked and offended him.
ht br~dled_ at the most common
mss-` ilecause Congress would not
Uyu}g. e E
tbneress vilitii dnst "approve it, we
tld be a matter of getting an agency
P beginning'to believe there really is
_tablishnlent thilt runs the country.
at; to you want Congress for if it doesn't
L' to give people the impression that
d by the CIA disclosures.
* * *
-the-fact disclosures about CIA. ,in-
inistration or the CIA directly
he United States had had a hand
p 1, V,
p~ '- 1 courage but-
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I -Attu as mw eiii in his brilliant
JUN t i s of Full bright, Fu11 rl ht's record car M
alilist 4 196 E f s
ru- 1Lie M cl
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... ' i+ul these things unless ou'r th film all
the tilde RLeCarth} rampaged. 3s did almost rt'rtllg
 reorge (Sen. Walter George of Geor&V , F t ht was quiet ] supporting Marshal
Foreign Relations chairman in' 955 Inc oslavia as an effective counter
19ti6~ had: that 19tized a? 1 r /ed '~ l ae th 1_49F 0 000870D-66-2
Eisenhower. They agree an eve a an I. to Ame cans had rots e e Kinng one aslce w at he planned to do to chaxige U.S.
J h,e 1uiew everything that was going Dili But co unmet from another. policy.
I don think they've ever cared yott up and nedown, Ful)right says now that That's why, I wrote the book. I was
told yoli what they were up ~o if they knew Ho the coin mumst in a it e r of woixiecl about overexposure in the speeches.
ecru wouldn't like it."+' '_ietnam, shows every sign of becom- I don't want to, become a common scold.
rwup
{ * * t, x., i Asian to if he ever gets breathing What can I do that I haven't done? How
FULBRIGHT COMI'LAI as many, spate. can I about it?"
e tics of. U.S. foreign cy, that the `e parallels' are there, in My opinion ' '" '" ` '' ? * ?
United States regularly comes down on the lie 79x lawns. "`they are b th 'COanmunlsts -_ AT 62 l'ulb ht balks convincingly of
aide of entrenched power against"revblu 'N heyybai B&_ _6 the recoii`fzetl leaders the aying puliics aside
ethe lot ~hefr country in st gg
e
'inst foreign though
her
is every algxit that he will seek
ries who are trying to imp
t
v
s
y
s
h
e
ev tBut, of the common man in the min elo ed domInation re-election in 1968,
i
a
he 'I don't think I'd miss this
s
This reality is lrid en, to )lis by the l12i HOt1G> ' his own de tciencies as a all that muchsayThere are some young fellows
rolriantic notion, ut}je U d, States nationalist have rendered 111 1, personally caminlr along who j,oul4 do a good job for
remains a. revolut p tfon , elf. and politically vulnerable, Fulbright be- Arkansas H1. m i ttons freshman Rep.
Fulbr)ght first ivtt Pres ent John. Iieves that nationalism, not communism, is 1?avid" tl r ar 'a a 'good example. 'Times
h in Ccjite her o 196x, T1,e ssuwas the m+lre pawer?ul force when~the two col change, and you shouldn't try to hang on
'
i n u e s
ic. rr n - . _ _ t ., s s - i When he 'does'leave the Senate, Fulbright '
- _bl
- -- a ata, ne wants --,lust to go n,,,, to r'a ene-
revolutionin what
used to called by rin- ro ina~ s CLen eti ass w a Tito s y
g and rest Not do anything, at least for
losit' v
that Fulbri }
e ent
cis a banana reublic
ii: left
tiide
n
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,
,
r.. 1. 1 -q ii `while: Betty (his wife) thinks I
the U.S, Establishment. probably forever-( "Th.-IT. ed States is now i?yolved 'in a __>_-_,s_..
nst
--. ~a..M op . k..,..~.. ?-. agai
a orn- might wma up to og somewhere, I su -
i3lp
colicated intellectual problem. The TJ.S tnlam my country in the world pose, ButI'd;'ljke try ,just watching the.
iiiterventiollin,the Dominican Rpublic was, ' n
Wblc - wo r rote under
h ojomat
.from c ,.- wortd go by. There's a lot I haven't got
for' Fulbright, u n a v o I d a b l 'y black and i communist leadership," the senator has arollui to-readigg."
white wJoen The Arrogance of (Power", his
Af~el" tarsi~afnig evidence on 'tJ S. infer brief against U.S. Vietnam policy. It?is this quiescence, as much as a fear
vent', ''u1 'i ht told the Senate that lie of political retribution, that keeps Fulbright
--'-The basis,ofm criticismA'of Ameflcan ;
from taking his case against the war to
mould ii4t ggy., pg rte,; ., ;, Q-4-1--f ,A + T +: A -4
U~LIVJI
and later wroteat n A A r1 28f1965 notaa better aserved ~by` upportingmiiationa+sm OfHthee Items within the Senate chani
1"Yl l ., 1> than b
y
pt a bu for the rim Lary -If -no[ the s e purpose th cthe coiintmu ist role ein thehgoverrnment critiques of the Vietnam war.
g ution, which, on e Fulbright reacts with something
to
defeatin the re
ge
r f ed an
peoplems of f