J. William Fulbright Quotes
Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay for everything Israel does. We don't have any leverage in the sense that Israel controls the Senate. The Senate is at least...a subservient, in my opinion, much too much. We should be more concerned about the United States' interest, rather than doing the bidding of Israel. This is a most unusual development.
Fulbright, J. William. Interview on Face the Nation. CBS, 15 Apr. 1973.
The practice became extensively used and the phrase along with it during the William Howard Taft administration where the media popularized it.
This speech was given before it was discovered that graduates of these programs, particularly, the School of the Americas, were guilty of mass atrocities and dictatorial government such as the Argentinean “Dirty War” in the late 1970s. See also his {631951}
John Foster Dulles was the Secretary of State and brother Allen Dulles was head of the CIA.
Nixon is responding to Ted Koppel’s observation that Nixon wrote in his book that Israel is of no strategic value to the US and yet it continues to support Israel.
James William Fulbright was an American politician, academic, and statesman who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1945 until his resignation in 1974. As of 2021, Fulbright is the longest serving chairman in the history of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He is best known for his staunch multilateralist positions on international issues, opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War, and the creation of the international fellowship program bearing his name, the Fulbright Program.
