Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower's condemnation of the Bricker amendment (TIME, Jan. 25) was having its effect-and nobody knew it better than Republican John Bricker. Last week the Ohio Senator retaliated by sending a letter to each of his colleagues, asserting that the President had been "misinformed" about the amendment, and had given "wide circulation to ... erroneous charges." On the Senate floor, Bricker went further. Said he: "It would be highly improper for the President of the U.S. to employ extra-legal pressures in an effort to defeat the amendment...
...tide had set in and John Bricker could not stop it. In midweek, Connecticut's Republican Prescott Bush, one of the amendment's 64 original sponsors, publicly announced a change of mind, indicated he would vote against it. Five others admitted privately to the same change of position. Bricker could no longer count on the necessary two-thirds majority...
Deleted Demands. The Administration, however, still saw no chance to defeat the amendment overwhelmingly, and anything less would invite its resurrection at every succeeding session of Congress. Secretary of State Dulles recommended that the President accept a watered-down amendment which, if passed, would effectively kill off the Bricker amendment. Ike agreed, and Senate Majority Leader William Knowland and Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman Homer Ferguson hammered out a substitute draft...
...substitute would toss out the two most obnoxious Bricker demands: 1) to give Congress the power to regulate all executive agreements, and 2) to make treaties effective as U.S. internal law only "through legislation which would be valid in the absence of a treaty" (the notorious "which" clause, which its opponents-including the President-say would sometimes give state legislatures the right to repudiate the nation's treaties). But the substitute would make it mandatory for all treaties to be made "in pursuance of the Constitution," instead of merely "under the authority of the U.S.," as is now required...
...adequate Presidential leadership in this country, we would have no Bricker Amendment problem," he added...