In A Democracy, Dissent Is An Act

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.

I Do Not Think It Is "selling America Short" When We Ask A Great Deal Of Her; On The Contrary, It Is Those Who Ask Nothing, Those Who See No Fault, Who Are Really Selling America Short!

We Are Trying To Remake Vietnamese Society, A Task Which Certainly Cannot Be Accomplished By Force And Which Probably Cannot Be Accomplished By Any Means Available To Outsiders.

There Has Been A Strong Tradition In This Country That It Is Not The Function Of The Military To Educate The Public On Political Issues.

The Legislator Is An Indispensable Guardian Of Our Freedom. It Is True That Great Executives Have Played A Powerful Role In The Development Of Civilization, But Such Leaders Appear Sporadically, By Chance. They Do Not Always Appear When They Are Most Needed. The Great Executives Have Given Inspiration And Push To The Advancement Of Human Society, But It Is The Legislator Who Has Given Stability And Continuity To That Slow And Painful Progress.