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...Senate Armed Services Committee, told the President that blockade was not enough and came too late. Russell was for immediate invasion. He argued that the U.S. was still paying for the Bay of Pigs debacle, so why fiddle around any longer? Russell was supported, surprisingly, by Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, who had led the fight in April 1961 against the Bay of Pigs invasion...
Arkansas. In past defenses of his Senate seat, J. William Fulbright merely went through the motions of campaigning. But under the leadership of G.O.P. National Committeeman Winthrop Rockefeller (brother of Nelson), the Republican Party has made a remarkable upsurge in Arkansas, and Fulbright faces a strenuous challenger in Republican Kenneth G. Jones, prosperous orthopedic surgeon who calls himself a "constitutionalist" and proclaims that "liberalism is socialism." Still, it would take a pretty deep plunger to bet against Fulbright...
...Mansfield his opening. If he could not talk the Southerners into voting for cloture, he could at least persuade them not to vote at all. Mansfield scheduled the vote for a day when a few anti-cloture Senators had good excuses to be away from Washington-Arkansas' William Fulbright found that he had a speaking engagement in New York, Nevada's Alan Bible and Arizona's Carl Hayden were on business trips home. At voting time, Virginians Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, North Carolina's B. Everett Jordan and Arkansas' John McClellan simply stayed away...
Issues and Answers (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). The issues are nuclear testing, the Berlin situation and other diplomatic dilemmas; the answers are offered by Senator Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...near unanimity of Republican opposition but what he called the "handful" of Democrats (Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen slyly christened them "living profiles in courage") who had made defeat possible-actually a third of the Senate's Democrats. They included such prominent Democrats as Foreign Relations Chairman William Fulbright, Ace Investigator John McClellan, moderate Liberal Mike Monroney, former Vice Presidential Candidate John Sparkman, and Armed Services Chairman Richard Russell, as well as Hayden, Randolph and Kerr...