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Article: Fulbright Helped Shape U.S. Role Abroad
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 12, 1995
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WASHINGTON In a congressional career that covered parts of four
decades, former Sen. J. William Fulbright, an urbane intellectual
from rural Arkansas who became one of the most influential shapers
and strongest critics of America's Cold War foreign policy,
concentrated his energies on establishing support for an assertive
U.S. role in the world.
Fulbright, who died Thursday at age 89, wrote a resolution as a
freshman Democratic member of Congress that helped provide the
foundation for U.S. involvement in the United Nations, sponsored the
international scholarship exchange program that still bears his name,
and eventually rose to a position of pre-eminence in the U.S. foreign
policy ...