FULBRIGHT'S EXAMPLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200930078-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: March 16, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POS '.'
TIMES HERALD MAR 1 6 1963
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In Perspective
Fuibright's 1 xa nple
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ONE;.DE,, the penalties fb'r
an abseie' from Washington
Is that so ,many events have
'vanished .beyond recall' even
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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
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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
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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
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Even AS A FINAL laurel-wreath,
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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,
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