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Article: J. William Fulbright, Critic Of U.S. Cold War Policy, Dies
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 10, 1995
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WASHINGTON Former Sen. J. William Fulbright, whose criticism of
America's "arrogance of power" in Vietnam gave intellectual substance
to the anti-war movement, died Thursday at 89.
Fulbright was an early mentor to Bill Clinton, who worked as
clerk in his Senate office while a student at Georgetown University
and who, years later, awarded him the nation's highest civilian
honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. If it weren't for
Fulbright, Clinton said Thursday at the White House, "I don't think
I'd be here today."
Fulbright was the architect of the Fulbright scholarships, an
international exchange program in which nearly a quarter of a million
students and teachers from more than 120 ...