J. William Fulbright

And it wasn't just Richard Nixon questioning LBJ's ground troop strategy.

Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright coined the phrase credibility gap, saying he couldn't get a straight answer from the administration about the war.

The most outspoken critic of the war was again Senator Wayne Morse.

The Oregon Democrat's raspy voice echoed through the empty Senate chamber.

The US is subservient to Israel.

All right? Senator William Fulbright was the longest-serving chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and in 1962 and '3, he led a hearing on foreign principles operating inside the US.

Because of Senator Fulbright, the American public got their only inside look at how powerful Zionist organizations like the Jewish Agency for Israel, United Jewish Appeal, and the American Zionist Council were operating.

The American Zionist Council, by the way, now is APAC or ZOA.

All right.

Senator William Fulbright was the longest-serving chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and in nineteen sixty-two and three, he led a hearing on foreign principles operating inside the US.

Because of Senator Fulbright, the American public got their only inside look at how powerful Zionist organizations like the Jewish Agency for Israel, United Jewish Appeal, and the American Zionist Council were operating.

The American Zionist Council, by the way, now is AIPAC.

Okay.

J. William Fulbright of Arkansas.

A Democrat.

A member of Truman's own party argues that President Truman is a spent force.

Um, for example, right now we have a lot of students with an Ozarks history class, um, that is doing, that are doing research, um, for that topic.

We have people that do a lot of political research, um, with, um, Senator Fulbright's papers and, um, um, Mark Pryor's, or, um, David Pryor's papers.

And, um, we have, like I said, if you can think of a topic, we probably have things that can satisfy your curiosity.

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Indeed.

If your curiosity bends toward a familiar Arkansas figure or subject, say architects E. Fay Jones or Edward Durell Stone, or composers like Florence Price or William Grant Still, or politicians like J. William Fulbright or Asa Hutchinson, this place has you covered.

But the far more obscure can be explored here as well.

There is a box with the label Feral Hogs, for example.

How does this isolationist stance impact our future security and military posture?

Yeah, it's, you know, I think that it all goes, one of the foundational books I read early on when I started realizing I probably need to know something about foreign policy if I'm going to be in the military, was J. William Fulbright wrote a book called The Arrogance of Power.

And it was a compilation of a series of speeches that he had given at colleges around the country and stuff.

And this was before we really got deep into Vietnam.

Uh, I tell in the middle of the book a, a really interesting, um, story where he met the president of the University of Arkansas.

Now, that was, uh, William Fulbright, who became Senator Fulbright after his tenure as president of the University of Arkansas.

And my dad befriended him and said, "I'd like to go to your medical school," which again, w- was almost a fanciful idea.

Segregation was still in place.

I want to have the students go through the same revelation that I did, that the world is simultaneously big and simultaneously coincidentally small.

And it really follows our faculty member, past president, and Senator William Fulbright.

And William Fulbright essentially said, it's through the exchange of education and international experiences that we humanize the world.

And that's paraphrased, but his intent was if we understand each other better, we'll lead to better cooperation, collaboration, and less conflict in the future.

So I have a lot of motivations for doing it.

One of the first chapters I wrote was kind of what's turned out to be in the middle of the book.

And that's about... how he sought mentorship and how he, and to me, this was a very good lesson learned even for me that as he was going through his education and hitting various walls here and walls there, I think there could be a tendency to be internal and be very bitter And yet he reached out to Senator William Fulbright.

That's a name that some people recognize with Fulbright scholarships.

Senator Fulbright from Arkansas had been the president of the University of Arkansas.