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Their onetime archenemy, Ohio's G.O.P. Senator John W. Bricker, could hardly contain himself on hearing their new line. "That," he kept repeating triumphantly, "was the argument I used three years ago when this bill came...
...nothing improper," Dawson insisted, "but I would not do it again." Cracked Ohio's John Bricker: "You think the limit, then, is three." Even Dawson grinned. Said Chairman Fulbright: "He sees nothing wrong with the Saxony case...
...there. Attached to its endorsement of Harry Truman's foreign policy was a stinging vote of no-confidence in Harry Truman's conduct of that policy. A peculiar coalition applied the stinger. It included resurgent isolationists like Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry and Ohio's John Bricker, who wanted to send no U.S. troops to Europe; men like Ohio's Robert Taft, who were resigned to sending the four divisions, but wanted to draw the line there; and other Senators, Republicans and Southern Democrats, who disputed the truculent challenge Harry Truman had flung at Congress last...
...nation was apt to get. Most talked of possibilities: Chief Justice Fred Vinson, ex-ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, Defense Deputy Secretary Bob Lovett, John Foster Dulles, Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman. In Republican eyes most of these possibilities would be preferable to Acheson, though Harriman, snorted Ohio's John Bricker, was just "a dumb Acheson...
Dirksen is more of an isolationist than Ohio's Bricker, and is backed by the same group of Republicans that sent C. Wayland Brooks to the Senate in 1942. He will oppose the President on all issues of foreign and domestic policy. Since the Republicans are within two of controlling the upper house of Congress, our foreign programs particularly aid to Europe can now be effectively opposed. The South's twelve-man contribution to the Democratic side of the Senate will join the GOP to try and defeat everything from the Marshall Plan to Point Four. Republicans can, of course...