“When it was becoming clear that the tide of World War II was turning, after Midway, after Stalingrad, when Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps was on the run, an unknown, first-term congressman introduced a resolution that would help shape the post-war world. The freshman congressman was J. William Fulbright [D-AR]. His resolution was only one sentence, as ‘plain as an old hat,’ said Life magazine at the time: ‘Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring) that the Congress hereby expresses itself as favoring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to establish and to maintain a just and lasting peace among the nations of the world, and as favoring participation by the United States therein.’” (06/03/08)