Fore! for Reconciliation

Fencing or chess may be fit sports for adversaries, but certainly not golf. Who wants to stride down a fairway next to someone with whom one is arguing about Viet Nam? Neither Bill Rogers nor Bill Fulbright. Close friends and frequent golf partners until 1969, they drifted apart when Rogers was named Secretary of State. The two continued to play once in a while, but the antiwar chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee seemed less intent on the game than on the debate. For his part, Rogers refused more and more often to testify before Fulbright's committee.

Now, however, the old twosome is getting back together. Fulbright recently sent Rogers a warm personal letter, suggesting a new spirit of reconciliation. Rogers agreed by return mail. When the Secretary of State testified before the Foreign Relations Committee last week, the hatchet, if not buried, was clearly put aside. After congratulating both Nixon and Rogers on ending the war, Fulbright suggested that the session represented "a new spirit of sweetness and light." Golf, anyone?

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