Posted on Sep 30, 2017
The 1966 Fulbright hearings on Vietnam parted the curtains on President Johnson's conduct of the...
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Fulbright, along with a majority of Congress, fell for Johnson and McNamara's explanation for the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964: “I believed what we were told about it in the committee,” Fulbright said. “No one had the skepticism that is essential, I’ve since discovered. We accepted it. I had no feeling that there would be a disposition to misrepresent what actually happened.”
Eighteen months later Fulbright realized Congress had been basically lied to by the administration.
Eighteen months later Fulbright realized Congress had been basically lied to by the administration.
The 1966 Fulbright hearings on Vietnam parted the curtains on President Johnson's conduct of the...
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"...the hearings legitimized public dissent. America began to have a conversation about Vietnam that they hadn't had before. By August 1967, a plurality of Americans came to believe that the war was a mistake. That shift in public opinion began with the Fulbright hearings of February 1966."
Fulbright was a traitor to our country in time of war, IMHO. It wend much deeper than just the hearings - he also divulged sensitive classified information to the enemy.
Fulbright was a traitor to our country in time of war, IMHO. It wend much deeper than just the hearings - he also divulged sensitive classified information to the enemy.
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SSgt Donald Libby
IMHO I think Fulbright would not have held the hearings or released information had Johnson not lied to him about Tonkin.
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Capt Seid Waddell
SSgt Donald Libby, perhaps not - but that still does not justify his treason and putting American soldiers' lives at risk.
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