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Article: J. William Fulbright, 89; senator, longtime critic of US foreign policy
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 10, 1995
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J. William Fulbright, an intellectual son of the Ozarks who
guided, cajoled and criticized US diplomacy in a 30-year Senate
career, died of a stroke in his Washington home early yesterday
morning. He was 89.
A mentor to President Clinton and a hero to thousands of other
young opponents of the war in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, Mr.
Fulbright made the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a platform of
what he called "the patriot's duty of dissent."
Mr. Fulbright clashed with presidents as he sought to steer the US
toward his view of a rational foreign policy and away from "a
psychological need that nations seem to have in order to prove that
they are bigger, better or stronger than other ...