Word: bricker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave Chip Bohlen his unqualified support (see below). He again gently reproved the authors of the Bricker treaty limiting amendment to the Constitution: while he is sure the Senators are patriotically well-intentioned, the President said, the amendment would certainly restrict the President's flexibility in the conduct of foreign relations. The Korean ammunition supply, he said, is equal to the existing military situation there. And he gave the Truman Administration one of his rare slaps, deplored the $709,000 terminal leave collected by the Fair Deal's top brass; he would never allow his own officials...
...Russia as an aggressor in Korea. When a reporter mentioned Joe McCarthy's opposition to Charles ("Chip") Bohlen as ambassador to Moscow, Eisenhower backed Bohlen's nomination. He went on record against New York's Daniel Reed on a tax cut, and against Senator John W. Bricker's proposed constitutional amendment to limit the treatymaking power...
Hugh J. Schwartzburg '53 will testify in Washington today on the controversial Bricker Amendment to the Constitution, which would revise treaty-making power of Congress and handling of executive agreements. He will speak for the Collegiate Council for the United Nations, of which he is National Chairman...
Fearing betrayal of citizens' rights, Bricker would protect them from encroachments by presidential treaty or agreement. He would further forbid cession of governmental duties to any supra-national body. Ratified treaties would always require a second approval by Congress to become law. And full-blown treaties would replace the more informal executive agreements...
...amendment, so say its backers, would guarantee civil rights by specifically hoisting the Constitution above treaty law. In ending the executive agreement, which is a formal understanding not submitted for ratification, Bricker hopes to safeguard the public weal from presidential barter...