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...government. Despite the lack of a clear public mandate for either branch, a Republican excutive and a Democratic legislature have nonetheless been able to hammer out effective compromises. Much of Eisenhower's record of positive achievements has been due to a Democratic Congress, which has supported him on the Bricker Amendment, foreign aid, and reciprocal trade. In contrast, many Republicans still vote against the concepts of foreign aid and of the United Nations. They have also defeated increased federal aid for vitally needed schoolrooms. Accordingly, whatever happens in the Presidential election 13 days from now--and the pollsters findings...
...Larsen, and even the President are not the effective policy makers who determine the record of an Administration or a Congress. The powers in a Republican Congress have been and would be Velde in the Committee on Un-American Activities, Tabor in budget-cutting, and our old friends Reese, Bricker, Malone, Welker, Short, Jenner and McCarthy...
...Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had doggedly supported President Eisenhower's internationalist policies. The prescription was a ruthless purge, and the man nominated to bring it off in the primaries was Glen R. Davis, 41, a handsome, smooth-talking fifth-term Congressman who believes in the Bricker amendment and in tapering off on foreign aid. Old Alex Wiley left the convention in tears (TIME, June 4), but he stubbornly decided to run anyway...
...Early in the conference, U.S. Delegate Walter Kotschnig announced that the U.S. would not participate in the debate and voting, nor would it sign the new antislavery convention no matter what it said. The State Department's avowed reason for its position was that because of Senator John Bricker's repeated assaults on the President's treaty-making power, "our present Administration feels it cannot sign treaties affecting internal problems." The likelier reason, which no one would admit to, is that the U.S. did not wish to offend King Saud, and thereby endanger the Dhahran airbase negotiations...
...Approved after five minutes' discussion and sent to the House a watered-down version of the Bricker Amendment contained in a bill (sponsored by Minority Leader Bill Knowland) requiring the Secretary of State to show the Senate, besides all regular treaties requiring formal ratification, the full texts of all hitherto secret executive agreements entered into by the President with the heads of other governments. Said Ohio's John W. Bricker: "A step in the right direction...