J. William Fulbright

Fulbright's 1946 amendment funding international educational exchange from surplus war property created the Fulbright Program, which has since sent hundreds of thousands of students and scholars abroad. As Foreign Relations chairman his televised 1966 hearings on Vietnam gave respectability to opposition to the war. The counterargument is his domestic record: the Arkansas senator signed the Southern Manifesto against school desegregation and voted against the Civil Rights Acts, which has prompted a long debate at the University of Arkansas over his statue.