Word: brickering
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...White House, Ike felt sure he could quickly smooth out presidential relationships with Congress. It was not that easy: in 1953 came the thoughts of a third party-and the conflicts with congressional diehards continued in 1954. At a Cabinet meeting, when the furor over Republican Senator John Bricker's proposed amendment (to limit the President's treatymaking power) was at its raucous height. Civil Service Commissioner Philip Young facetiously suggested that perhaps a few A-bombs "could be used now to good effect." Says Donovan: "The President took him to task for this. He said sharply that...
...Republican colleagues let loose, he had good reason to guess that he was licked. The state G.O.P. convention, meeting in Milwaukee last week to choose its candidate for the U.S. Senate primary in September, cheered attacks on "Uncle Sap's" foreign-aid program, then passed resolutions praising the Bricker amendment and the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. As everybody knew, Alex Wiley had been consistently faithful to the Administration's foreign policy as ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had voted against the Bricker amendment, and had even been conveniently absent from the Senate when his fellow...
...actually to encourage and urge it. The fact that we see eye to eye on the mysteries of the incarnation, the redemption and the divine trinity does not make it any easier-or, for that matter, even necessary-that we all nod our heads together when someone mentions the Bricker amendment, fluoridation of water, or the merger of the C.I.O. and A.F.L...
Last week the U.S. Congress looked away from the farm belt just long enough to: ¶ Add, by a 43-to-40 vote in the Senate, a John W. Bricker amendment to an otherwise routine bill increasing to $3,000,000 the annual U.S. contributions to the International Labor Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. Ohio Republican Bricker insisted that the extra money be withheld until Iron Curtain representatives are expelled from the ILO. Against Administration objections that the rider would portray the U.S. as dictating to the free world, 35 Republicans and eight Democrats voted...
...Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), John Sparkman (D-Ala.), John O. Pastore (D,R.I.), Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), Alben W. Barkley (D-Ky), Styles Bridges (R-N.H.), Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.), Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R-Iowa), Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass.), William F. Knowland (R-Calif.), and John W. Bricker (R-Ohio...