(1905 – 1995) Educator and statesman, Fulbright was president of the University of Arkansas before being elected to the Senate in 1945. He soon established the government-funded international program for the exchange of students and professors that bears his name.

For three decades, Fulbright, who headed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was also a beacon for globalism and critical thinking in foreign affairs. In the 1950s, he opposed McCarthyism and, in the 1960s, also came to oppose the war in Vietnam.

Among his thoughtprovoking writings are The Arrogance of Power (1967) and The Pentagon Propaganda Machine (1970).