<--PREV Doc #1536  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1538 Document #1537; August 1, 1955 To Edgar Newton Eisenhower Series: EM, AWF, DDE Diaries Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVI - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part VIII: Toward "statesmanship of a high order"; June 1955 to November 1955 Chapter 16: Summitry at Geneva   Dear Ed: I am told that Judge Orie Phillips, Mr. Rankin (Justice Department), Senator Bricker and Loyd Wright have all concluded that the best wording for Section 1 would be "Any provision of a treaty or international agreement which conflicts with this Constitution shall be of no force or effect." I assure you that I shall not oppose any Amendment that is couched in this language, and I would certainly like to see this matter off the books once and for all.1 As ever 1 On Edgar's interest in revision of the proposed Bricker amendment see nos. 1509 and 1522. Edgar had written on July 29 to say that he had not been surprised to find changes in his suggested revision of Section 1. He had, he said, discussed the issue with Attorney General Brownell but had not heard further from him (AWF/N). On the deliberations with Senator Bricker; Attorney General Brownell; Orie L. Phillips, Chief Judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, Denver; J. Lee Rankin, Assistant Attorney General; and Loyd Wright, past president of the State Bar Association of California, see Memorandum for the Files--HB, "Bricker Amendment," July 29, 1955; Brownell to Eisenhower, July 30, 1955; and Eisenhower to Brownell, Aug. 1, 1955, all in AWF/A. The issue would not finally be "off the books" until 1958 (see Tananbaum, Bricker Amendment Controversy, pp. 214-15). For developments see no. 1544. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Edgar Newton Eisenhower, 1 August 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1537. World Wide Web facsimile by The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission of the print edition; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1537.cfm <--PREV Doc #1536  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1538

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