Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coexistence talk was worth voicing, he had blatantly disregarded the fact that he is not "any Senator." He is the majority leader, who is supposed to represent the Administration on Capitol Hill. This was by no means his first major open difference with Administration policy, e.g., he supported the Bricker amendment, and has repeatedly called for a break in diplomatic relations with Russia. It is not the Knowland practice to argue with Administration officials and then, if he must, publicly disagree. He takes his stand against the Administration without any apparent feeling for party cohesion. In 1944, when long-suffering...
Cheever thought that the proposed Bricker Amendment with its restrictions on executive agreements would be buried. Sutherland explained the nature of the elections points to no great domestic change...
...rest of the Republican Party has made no such admission. It showed its isolationist orientation most clearly by nearly passing the Bricker Amendment against strong Executive protests. But if the Democrats managed to defeat the Bricker Amendment, they could do nothing to support the Administration's original sensible policy (sloganized as "trade not aid") of extending the Reciprocal Trade Agreements three more years and cutting swollen tariff schedules. For by the time the foreign trade legislation reached Congress, the Administration had weakly surrendered to Mid-Western protectionist pressure; the Agreements were given a short one year renewal, and the Executive...
...great power which would commit its forces to action anywhere in the world if such action clashed directly with its national interests. In this country, for instance, a revision of the UN Charter would need Senate approval like any other treaty. And a body which almost passed the Bricker Amendment would never conceivably ratify an agreement by which U.S. troops could be committed without this country's consent...
...Insofar as he was a liberal-and he was-he had little or nothing in common with such liberals as Hubert Humphrey or Herbert Lehman. Insofar as he was a conservative-and he was-he had little or nothing in common with such conservatives as Joe Grundy or John Bricker...