Word: fulbright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arkansas' Dale Bumpers [June 10] and the voters of his state have shortsightedly deprived the rest of the nation. Bill Fulbright was a Senator...
...stay with it. You'll get a fair hearing.' " In saltier fashion, 81-year-old George Aiken, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, commented: "The goddam fool. Can't he take it? Why that's part of the business -being criticized." Senator William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, advised "everyone in this distracted city to calm down...
...embarrassment of riches. Since Columnist Maxene Cheshire disclosed in May that there were discrepancies in the reporting of gifts received by Pat Nixon and her daughters, jewel boxes all over official Washington have been emptied. Among those hurriedly delivering diamonds, rubies and emeralds to the gifts office were Betty Fulbright, wife of Senator J. William, whose Foreign Relations Committee drafted the 1966 law that does not permit officials or their families to accept gifts worth more than $50. The greatest surprise came when Hubert Humphrey turned in a 7.9 carat diamond estimated to be worth more than $100,000. Presented...
...Fulbright's successor as Foreign Relations Chairman will probably be Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman, who usually follows the Administration's foreign policy. The committee's hearings will likely be much quieter in the days ahead than when Bill Fulbright was peering over his half-rimmed glasses and trying, in his own stubborn, professorial way, to tell the squirming representatives of a succession of American Presidents how the United States should conduct its foreign policy...
...Senator Fulbright sponsored a highly successful international exchange program for students and scholars. The fellowships, appropriately, are known as "Fulbrights...