To Be A Statesman, You

During A Single Week Of July 1967, 164 Americans Were Killed And 2100 Were Wounded In City Riots In The United States. We Are Truly Fighting A Two-front War And Doing Badly In Both. Each War Feeds On The Other And, Although The President Assures Us That We Have The Resources To Win Both Wars, In Fact We Are Not Winning Either.

In A Democracy Dissent Is An Act Of Faith. Like Medicine, The Test Of Its Value Is Not In Its Taste, But In Its Effects.

Intolerance Of Dissent Is A Well-noted Feature Of The American National Character.

The Great Majority Of The Senate Of The United States...somewhere Around 80 Percent...are Completely In Support Of Israel, Anything Israel Wants. This Has Been Demonstrated Time And Again, And This Has Made It Difficult.

Of All The Joint Ventures In Which We Might Engage, The Most Productive, In My View, Is Educational Exchange. I Have Always Had Great Difficulty-since The Initiation Of The Fulbright Scholarships In 1946-in Trying To Find The Words That Would Persuasively Explain That Educational Exchange Is Not Merely One Of Those Nice But Marginal Activities In Which We Engage In International Affairs, But Rather, From The Standpoint Of Future World Peace And Order, Probably The Most Important And Potentially Rewarding Of Our Foreign-policy Activities.