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...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman,Miller...
Fulbright criticized every President from Harry Truman to Richard Nixon for being too doctrinaire or too heavy-handed in his use of American power abroad. The Senator was one of the few to warn John Kennedy against trying to topple Fidel Castro by landing rebels at the Bay of Pigs, and he opposed the armed intervention by Lyndon Johnson into the confused affairs of the Dominican Republic...
Fulbright was a country boy who made it to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar,* and some of his colleagues regard him as an aloof and self-righteous man who never got over the experience. (President Truman once called him "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b.") As time went by, Fulbright grew to prefer the company of the rich and the powerful. He became a confidant of Henry Kissinger and the friend and counselor to Presidents and Kings. In the process, he lost touch with Arkansas, and last week the people of his state...
Nevertheless, most women said their politics were liberal, although somewhat apolitical. 1948 had been the year Dewey, the Harvard-Radcliffe favorite, lost to Truman. It was a time when Harvard President James Bryant Conant and General Dwight D. Eisenhower were actively denouncing communists, saying they should not be permitted to teach...
...issue, next to stories about Dewey and Truman, was a picture of 23 Radcliffe women. The picture was headlined with the words "Non-partisan beauties." The caption read: "Politics didn't have the spotlight all to itself as the term went by. A pretty face and figure still carry a lot of appeal, and to prove, it, Mademoiselle (magazine) conducted a fashion show over at Radcliffe. The 23 lovelies shown above moved into the second round of the contest, which was held in October. Politics took a back seat, at least for the moment, while the contestants put themselves into...