J·威廉·傅爾布萊特：修订间差异

在[[約翰·甘迺迪]]總統心中，他是國務卿的第一人選，但有人認為他太具爭議性，因此選中[[迪安·魯斯克]]。<ref>{{cite book |last=Schlesinger |first=Arthur M., Jr. |title=Journals 1952–2000 | year=2008 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |page=98 |isbn=978-0-14-311435-2 |quote=Elizabeth Farmer told me this evening that, at five this afternoon, it looked as if it would be Rusk in State, with Bowles and Bundy as Undersecretaries. (Ken, by the way, told me that Jack had called him on the 7th and talked seriously about Mac as Secretary.) I asked why Rusk had finally emerged. Elizabeth said, 'He was the lowest common denominator.' Apparently Harris Wofford succeeded in stirring the Negroes and Jews up so effectively that the uproar killed Fulbright, who was apparently Jack's first choice.}}</ref>甘迺迪總統在發動[[豬灣事件]]前徵詢他的意見，他極力反對，指該行動與美國所受到的威脅極度不成比例，會損害美國在世界上的道德地位，使美國無法抗議共產黨違反條約。<ref name="Schlesinger2002">{{cite book|author=Arthur Meier Schlesinger|title=''A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House''| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=uFhNxX5lrNEC&pg=PA252| year=2002|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=0-618-21927-7|page=252}}</ref>

 

 

1964年8月7日，傅爾布萊特支持的{{link-en|東京灣決議案|Gulf of Tonkin Resolution}}在眾議院一致通過，在參議院以88-2票通過，導致後來越戰急劇升級。<ref name="美國參議院"/>然而不久後，他從閱讀和記者的採訪了解，美國正在支持一個不受歡迎的傀儡政權，對抗本土真正的民族主義革命運動。<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.historyandtheheadlines.abc-clio.com/ContentPages/ContentPage.aspx?entryId=1162164&currentSection=1130228&productid=4 | title='' Fulbright, James William (1905–1995) ''|publisher={{link-en|ABC-CLIO|ABC-CLIO}}}}{{en}}</ref>他後來寫道：<ref name="Fulbright1966"/>{{rp|68}}