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...appointment giving Kennedy the most trouble was the most important one of all: Secretary of State. One by one Kennedy ran down a list of eligibles, rejecting them for various reasons. By week's end his strongest preference was for Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, 55, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...three-term Senate veteran, Fulbright is a former Rhodes scholar, was president of the University of Arkansas, is the father of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship student-exchange program. An outspoken opponent of the late Senator Joe McCarthy, he was the lone Senator to vote in 1954 against providing McCarthy with additional investigating funds. For his pains, Fulbright won a sneering sobriquet from McCarthy: "Senator Half-bright." As a persistent critic of Eisenhower foreign policies, Liberal Fulbright's views coincide closely with Kennedy...
Secretary of State: A spectrum of possibilities including World Bank President Eugene Black, an Atlanta-born independent; David K. E. Bruce, Maryland Democrat and former Ambassador to West Germany; and-last and apparently least probable-three Kennedy foreign-policy advisers: Arkansas Senator William Fulbright; Adlai Stevenson; and Connecticut's Chester Bowles, who resigned from Congress to help out in the campaign...
Said Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, who will carry the brunt of the load in the Senate drive for repeal: "As much as some Americans may dislike it, the U.S. has been thrust into the center of world affairs. Either we move to strengthen the mechanisms of world peace -of which the World Court is a conspicuous example-or we continue to suffer increasingly the frustrations of a world in which there is no real peace...
...would cripple the workings of the World Court to the eventual detriment of U.S. interests. A bipartisan campaign to repeal the Connally Reservation has won the backing of President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Herter, Attorney General William Rogers, Democratic Senators Hubert Humphrey, J. William Fulbright and John Kennedy. It may pass the Senate next year. Hoping to influence the Senate's decision, a conservative faction in the A.B.A. has been working hard to persuade the bar association to reverse its 13-year stand in condemnation of the Connally Reservation...