Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of J. William Fulbright, 1979Biographical NoteUnited States Senator.
Scope and ContentsChildhood and early education in Arkansas: impact of father's death, 1923, family obligation, geographic isolation, continuing ties to Arkansas; Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University, 1928: travels to Balkan Islands, development of international perspective; law degree, George Washington University [GWU], 1934; attorney, U.S.Department of Justice, 1934-1935; law professor, GWU, 1935-1939; President, University of Arkansas, 1939-1941; Democratic congressman, 1934-1935: Fulbright Resolution; senator 1944-1975: dissention on U.S. intervention in Dominican Republic, Bay of Pigs, Vietnam; need for alternative outlooks on international relations; importance of cultural development and international exchange programs; approaches to peace; skepticism of government; reactions to Joseph R. McCarthy, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower; influential senators; senate Foreign Relations Committee session with psychiatrist; American obsession with Russians, rigidity with foreigners.
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1991
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