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...sympathy toward him. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy called Scott's speech a specimen of "Political Murder, Inc." and Nixon obliquely disowned it. Suddenly it was not the Kennedy camp but the Nixon camp that was asked to explain. "Who is Mr. Shepley?" Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, wanted to know. "I tried to get money for students who were to come from Egypt, and we secured only part of the funds requested. I could not do it. How in the world can Mr. Shepley go down to the State Department...
STATE : Congressman Chester Bowles of Connecticut, who added to the gossip by announcing last week that he would not run for re-election to Congress but would campaign for Kennedy instead; Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; or one of two former U.S. Ambassadors to Russia-Aver ell Harriman or George Kennan. Adlai Stevenson is now being mentioned more often as Ambassador to the U.N., although his old friend Eleanor Roosevelt, who still wants him to be Secretary of State, last week said that "his qualifications are not those needed at the moment...
...Dozens won other prizes. Among them: 28 Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, 20 National Science Foundation Fellowships, twelve Fulbright grants, six Marshall Scholarships and seven Rhodes Scholarships, the largest number from any one college in history...
...Senate floor, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman William Fulbright charged that the Administration had dragged the U.S.'s international prestige to a "new low" by "bumbling and fumbling" during the U-2 dustup. The Administration's handling of the U-2 incident, said Arkansas' Fulbright, taking a slap at Dwight Eisenhower, showed a need for "much firmer direction of all governmental activities affecting foreign relations. If this is not to come from the White House, it should come from the State Department." Back came Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, ranking Republican on Fulbright's committee, to defend...
James William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee