How the West Was Rapproched

What the Republican nominee is getting at, in plain old cowpoke language, is that sooner or later one side or the other is going to have to bite the dust. Why? Anybody who’s seen a good old Gary Cooper movie knows why. Whoever heard of cowboys coexisting with Indians? Whoever heard of Wyatt Earp coexisting with Jesse James?

—Sen. J. W. Fulbright, August 15, 1964