STATEMENT BY SENATOR J. W. FULBRIGHT IN THE 
U. S. SENATE JULY 24, 1957 on H. R. 6127.

     Mr. President, a long time ago when I was a boy 
    attending a small town high school there was an occasion when 
    I felt terribly let down concerning a man for whom at that 
    time I had a profound respect in a kind of youthful hero 
    worship. The man was George Washington, But I felt terribly 
    let down toward him when I read these lines about him in a 
    text by Edward Everett. Everett began his text in this 
    way: "Washington," he said, "was pre-eminently a man 
    of common sense,"
    Naturally as a boy I had thought of Washington in 
    terms of the famous painting of Washington Crossing the 
    Delaware, There he stood, cloaked and determined looking, in 
    a small boat crossing the broad river, amid cakes of ice, 
    on his way to destroy the Hessians on the other side of the 
    Delaware. I was told that this hero of mine, this fighter, 
    this dashing soldier, was distinguished primarily by common 
    sense,
    It was only years later that I began to understand 
    the significance of Everett's text. It was only later that I
     began to understand that without Washington's balance — 
    indeed his common sense — it is probable that this great 
    country of ours might never have been founded as a democracy. 
    And it was only later that I discovered that among men common- 
    sense is a most uncommon quality.

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