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...lives by allowing Hanoi to funnel arms and men into the South over bridges, roads and jungle trails exempt from air interdiction. On the other hand, the pause had fomented increasingly vociferous assaults on the President's policy in Viet Nam, largely from within his own party. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, challenged the very legality of U.S. involvement in the war. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urged that the bombing be suspended "indefinitely." Nearly half of the Senate's Democrats are known to want Johnson to continue the lull; 77 House Democrats have...
With most members of Congress facing reelection, Democrats in particular feared that the war would cut into vaunted Great Society programs; as one Republican cracked, they were asking the President to "hold up the guns until we can get the butter spread." While Fulbright in effect wanted the Administration to clear its war plans with his committee, Democratic Senators Ernest Gruening of Alaska and Wayne Morse of Oregon went so far as to propose that the Government be prohibited from sending a single draftee to Viet Nam unless he actually volunteered for duty there...
Rusk's interrogators refused to be convinced. Led by Chairman Fulbright, Democratic hoplites jabbed at him for four hours. Tennessee's Albert Gore questioned whether the Administration had any right to justify its actions in Viet Nam merely by citing the August 1964 joint resolution of Congress passed unanimously in the House and 88 to 2 in the Senate after the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Rusk noted that Gore had a copy of the resolution and asked to borrow it. "Oh, sure," said Gore, pitching a 233-page pamphlet from a high rostrum to the well where Rusk...
...statement urging continued restraint. The President's face, said one participant, was "frozen as concrete." When Fulbright began to air his views, Johnson pointedly turned to Rusk and chatted away intently, completely ignoring the Senator. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen said he would support whatever course the President decided upon, but declined to make any judgment himself because "I don't like to have the sidewalk fly up and hit me in the face." His refusal to take a stand was elemental politics; by leaving the choice to the President, he also left the G.O.P. free to criticize...
Most of the money is needed to increase the number of I Tatti Fellowships. Center funds now support five or six of the 11 fellows. The others are sponsored by Guggenheim, Fulbright or other grants. New income would be used to increase the number of European scholars and to aid Americans whose fellowships are not renewed...