Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sticking Points. Brownell, Dulles, Knowland & Co. worked hard to get a compromise with the Bricker forces, but inevitably, both sides ran into two basic sticking points...
...Bricker insists that Congress shall have the power to regulate all executive agreements; the Administration will not yield these powers-which are all too slender in an era when events demand fast, detailed executive action in foreign relations...
...amendment specifies that no treaty shall become the law of the land until both houses of Congress have passed enabling legislation. Bricker wants Congress to determine which treaties require enabling legislation; the Administration insists that the President must have the power to decide...
Dedicated Man. John Bricker's mood is one of dauntless dedication. He is willing to search for a compromise, if he can find one that suits his conscience. But he complains that the Administration does not really know its own mind. "It's my Administration," he says. "It's a Republican Administration. I want to get along with them. But they don't seem to want to understand the issue. They haven't advanced one cogent argument against the principles of the resolution...
Bill Knowland is duty bound to call up the Bricker amendment for action in the Senate in the first weeks of the session. If no compromise can be reached with Bricker by then, the Administration has two fearsome choices: 1) tight-lipped acceptance of defeat, and all that it may mean in crippling the operation of U.S. foreign affairs; 2) a wide-open fight between wings of the Republican Party, with subsequent peril to the Administration's legislative program...