Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of times Senator Bricker has invoked the Constitution as the sacred vessel of all that is praise-worthy in America is past counting. His proposed amendment, thus, seems somewhat anamalous. Despite our feeling that cant has dominated his incantations, it is still surprising that so ardent a defender of the Constitution should want to alter that document as drastically as he does...
...Constitution? President Eisenhower's declaration led to an obvious case in point: the controversial Bricker amendment to curtail his treaty-making powers (TIME, Jan. 18), which has brought his Administration to the brink of open warfare with Congress. Defending his opposition to the amendment, Ike went back to the Constitutional Convention and put a question to the reporters: Why was the Constitution formed to replace the old Articles of Confederation? Then he answered his own question...
President Eisenhower was willing to swallow broad compromises for the Bricker amendment, but-and here the President leaned forward with his hands flat on his desk and spoke with utter earnestness-when you come down to this, that we have to go right back to the general system that prevailed before our Constitution was adopted, then he certainly never shall agree...
...Much Sense. In an afterthought, Ike added that the Bricker amendment need never worry his Administration. It takes a long time to get an amendment passed, and the Bricker amendment, he was quite sure, would not affect the next three years. He was making his fight out of his belief and concern for what is good for the future of the U.S. The three-year reference inspired the United Press' alert political reporter, John Cutter, later in the conference, to ask if that meant that Ike was announcing himself as a one-term President. Ike grinned, flushed and ducked...
Some White House callers have said privately that Ike is determined not to run for a second term. Last week such reports gained momentum when Ike told newsmen that the Bricker amendment would not affect his Administration, since it could not be adopted in the next three years. The statement caused concern among some Republican leaders, who think that the 1956 campaign will be waged on the Eisenhower record, and that the best candidate for that platform will be Dwight Eisenhower...