In Fulbright’s footsteps
Source: Boston Globe
Author: Derrick Z. Jackson
08/24/05
The Hagel hearings have not yet been scheduled. They are for now a mythical event. But as President Bush’s war in Iraq becomes more maddening to Americans, the more Hagel talks as if he is the Republican who will become to Bush what J. William Fulbright once was to Lyndon Johnson. Fulbright was the Democratic senator from Arkansas who publicly turned against Johnson’s war in Vietnam. Fulbright used his power as the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold nationally televised hearings to debate the merits of the war. Hagel is the Republican senator from Nebraska, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, and a Purple Heart Vietnam veteran. In recent months, Hagel has become the top Republican critic of Bush’s war...
Link: http://tinyurl.com/82rv6
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Author: Derrick Z. Jackson
08/24/05
The Hagel hearings have not yet been scheduled. They are for now a mythical event. But as President Bush’s war in Iraq becomes more maddening to Americans, the more Hagel talks as if he is the Republican who will become to Bush what J. William Fulbright once was to Lyndon Johnson. Fulbright was the Democratic senator from Arkansas who publicly turned against Johnson’s war in Vietnam. Fulbright used his power as the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold nationally televised hearings to debate the merits of the war. Hagel is the Republican senator from Nebraska, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, and a Purple Heart Vietnam veteran. In recent months, Hagel has become the top Republican critic of Bush’s war...
Link: http://tinyurl.com/82rv6
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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