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[[File:Clinton and Fulbright.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Bill Clinton and Fulbright]]
[[File:Clinton and Fulbright.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Bill Clinton and Fulbright]]
Fulbright concocted a [[conspiracy theory]] that "right-wing radicalism", as espoused by the [[John Birch Society]] and wealthy oil-man [[H. L. Hunt]], had infected the United States military.<ref>http://www.historyandtheheadlines.abc-clio.com</ref> He was in turn denounced by Sens. [[Strom Thurmond]] and [[Barry Goldwater]]. Goldwater and Texas Sen. [[John Tower]] announced that they were going to Arkansas to campaign against Fulbright,<ref>Johnson, Haynes and Gwertzmann, Bernard (1968). ''Fulbright: The Dissenter''. Doubleday.</ref> but the state's voters reelected him.
Fulbright concocted a [[conspiracy theory]] that "right-wing radicalism", as espoused by the [[John Birch Society]] and wealthy oil-man [[H. L. Hunt]], had infected the United States military.<ref>http://www.historyandtheheadlines.abc-clio.com</ref> He was in turn denounced by Sens. [[Strom Thurmond]] and [[Barry Goldwater]]. Goldwater and Texas Sen. [[John Tower]] announced that they were going to Arkansas to campaign against Fulbright,<ref>Johnson, Haynes and Gwertzmann, Bernard (1968). ''Fulbright: The Dissenter''. Doubleday.</ref> but the state's voters reelected him.
In his final term, he lead opposition to Nixon's Supreme Court nominees [[Clement Haynsworth]] and [[Harrold Carswell]].<ref>Woods 1995, pp. 555-57</ref>.
==Israel==
==Israel==