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Document
#679; January 22, 1954
To Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Series:
EM, AWF, DDE Diaries Series: Bricker Amendment
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Personal and confidential
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume
XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part
IV: "Pushing ahead along the broad center"; December 1953 to March 1954
Chapter
8: A world "racing toward catastrophe"
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Dear Herb: Here is the draft of which I spoke to you.1 Of course I want any comments as to the substance you want to make. Moreover, a special reason for sending it to you is to get somebody to give it a careful scrutiny to make sure I have not made any fool mistakes in law or history.
I do feel sure that we must distinguish between the "treaty-making power of the Federal government" and the "treaty-enforcing power." Possibly it might be better to refer to this latter function as "fulfillment of treaty obligations" or some other term of like nature.
If you have any great doubts about the draft in either legal or common sense terms, won't you please come over with it and we will have a chat? As you know, my basic purpose is to get this thing down to simple understandable terms and get the real issue out in front.2 As ever
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal and confidential To Herbert Brownell, Jr.,
22 January 1954.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 679.
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/679.cfm
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