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When I called and tried to talk him into opening more polling places, Will laughed and said, “Now, Bill, calm down. Fulbright had supported the Tonkin Gulf resolution in August 1964, giving President Johnson the authority to respond to apparen '   'How could-'   'Wait a minute, the story's on the news. He pressed a button that opened the cassette housing on the recorder but it was empty.

I did it for Erskine’s kids, for George Shelton, and for Jeff, who would have wanted more than anything to spare others his pain and premature end. Vann Woodward’sThe Burden of Southern History, in which he noted southerners’ “peculiar historical consciousness,” what Eudora Welty called “the sense of place. In my senior year Joe Newman became our drummer. His main adversary in the primary was none other than Justice Jim Johnson, who was back to his old routine, traveling to county seats with a country band, bashing Fulbright as soft on communism.