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...Majority Leader William Knowland, caught in the crossfire between the Administration and the Brickerites, produced still another amendment draft. It was a makeshift effort with little support. Knowland finally announced that there would be no vote on any of the schemes until next week so as to give the U.S. public "an opportunity to look and study...
...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...
Stimulated Stalemate. This week, in a letter to Knowland, the President reaffirmed that he was "unalterably opposed" to the Bricker amendment and, in effect, endorsed the Ferguson-Knowland compromise. Said he: "I am aware of the feeling of many of our citizens that a treaty may override the Constitution. So that there can be no question on this point, I will gladly support an appropriate amendment that will make this clear for all time...
...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...
...Capitol Hill, Nixon is a presidential agent, not a congressional leader. His fellow Californian, William Knowland, the Senate Majority leader, has immediate access to the President when he wants it, so Nixon would never dream of telling Knowland, "This is what the President wants." Knowland must decide what bills the Senate will take up; Nixon can only advise the President on what to ask for. Knowland must worry about every Administration program; Nixon leaves many of them to White House liaison men. Another difference: Knowland may, on occasion, disagree publicly with the President; Nixon submerges his views if they conflict...