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Richard Russell, the Senate Armed Services Committee & Oversight of America’S Defense, 1955-1968
BALANCING CONSENSUS, CONSENT, AND COMPETENCE: RICHARD RUSSELL, THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE & OVERSIGHT OF AMERICA’S DEFENSE, 1955-1968 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Joshua E. Klimas, M.A. * * * * * The Ohio State University 2007 Dissertation Committee: Approved by Professor David Stebenne, Advisor Professor John Guilmartin Advisor Professor James Bartholomew History Graduate Program ABSTRACT This study examines Congress’s role in defense policy-making between 1955 and 1968, with particular focus on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), its most prominent and influential members, and the evolving defense authorization process. The consensus view holds that, between World War II and the drawdown of the Vietnam War, the defense oversight committees showed acute deference to Defense Department legislative and budget requests. At the same time, they enforced closed oversight procedures that effectively blocked less “pro-defense” members from influencing the policy-making process. Although true at an aggregate level, this understanding is incomplete. It ignores the significant evolution to Armed Services Committee oversight practices that began in the latter half of 1950s, and it fails to adequately explore the motivations of the few members who decisively shaped the process. SASC chairman Richard Russell (D-GA) dominated Senate deliberations on defense policy. Relying only on input from a few key colleagues – particularly his protégé and eventual successor, John Stennis (D-MS) – Russell for the better part of two decades decided almost in isolation how the Senate would act to oversee the nation’s defense. -
Congressional Mail Logs for the President (1)” of the John Marsh Files at the Gerald R
The original documents are located in Box 8, folder “Congress - Congressional Mail Logs for the President (1)” of the John Marsh Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Copyright Notice The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald R. Ford donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid copyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. r Digitized from Box 8 of The John Marsh Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Presi dent's Mail - May 11, 1976 House 1. Augustus Hawkins Writes irr regard to his continuing · terest in meeting with the President to discuss the· tuation at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission prior to the appoint ment of a successor to Chairman owell W. Perry. 2. Larry Pressler Says he will vote to sustain e veto of the foreign military assistance se he believes the $3.2 billion should be u ed for nior citizens here at horne. 3. Gus Yatron Writes on behalf of Mrs. adys S. Margolis concerning the plight of Mr. Mi ail ozanevich and his family in the Soviet Union. 4. Guy Vander Jagt Endorses request of the TARs to meet with the President during their convention in June. -
Fallacies in the Case for the Bricker Amendment Brunson Macchesney
Notre Dame Law Review Volume 29 | Issue 4 Article 3 8-1-1954 Fallacies in the Case for the Bricker Amendment Brunson MacChesney Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Brunson MacChesney, Fallacies in the Case for the Bricker Amendment, 29 Notre Dame L. Rev. 551 (1954). Available at: http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr/vol29/iss4/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by NDLScholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Notre Dame Law Review by an authorized administrator of NDLScholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE BRICKER AMENDMENT THE FALLACIES IN THE CASE FOR THE BRICKER AMENDMENT Introduction The existing constitutional arrangements for the making and enforcing of treaties and the present constitutional powers of the President to make executive and other agree- ments with foreign countries have recently been under severe attack. Since these arrangements and powers have on the whole served us remarkably well under changing circum- stances for more than a century and a half, it is proposed to examine the development of this campaign and to analyze the arguments that have been used to support it. The principal goal of this forensic effort has been the adop- tion of the Bricker amendment as reported out by the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 4, 1953. The amendment did not of course emerge suddenly out of a vacuum. Advocacy of such a proposal was initiated chiefly by groups in the Ameri- can Bar Association,2 and by Senator Bricker and other Sen- ators associated with him. -
Bricker-Dirksen Amendment Kenneth C
Hastings Law Journal Volume 8 | Issue 1 Article 1 1-1956 Bricker-Dirksen Amendment Kenneth C. Sears Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_law_journal Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Kenneth C. Sears, Bricker-Dirksen Amendment, 8 Hastings L.J. 1 (1956). Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_law_journal/vol8/iss1/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Law Journal by an authorized editor of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. BRICKER-DIRKSEN AMENDMENT By KENNETH C. SEARSt The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has recommended the adoption of a resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States. It concerns treaties and other international agreements; but it differs from other ver- sions of what is called the Bricker Amendment. Senator Dirksen of Illinois appears to have been the person who secured an agreement of a majority of the committee in submitting the present text as follows: "Section 1. A provision of a treaty or other international agreement which conflicts with any provision of this Constitution shall not be of any force or effect."' While there are two additional sections, as noted, Section 1 is the only section that is worthy of any appreciable debate. Before it is made a part of the Constitution of the United States there should be an announcement, as clear as it is humanly possible to state it, of the purposes that its advo- cates seek to accomplish. Since there have been decisions of the United States Supreme Court as to the validity of treaties and of legislation to enforce them, the .voters should be informed which of these decisions will be rendered ineffective as precedents upon the adoption of section 1, supra. -
Administrator
The Administrator Texas State Agency Business Administrators’ Association • Volume 28, Number 1 • March 2010 “Shootout at the TSABAA Meetings Y.O.”: 30th Mid-Winter Enrich Your Life Conference Highlights December Bi-Monthly Meeting Now that your cowboy boots have been kicked Deepens Understanding of to the back of the closet, it’s time to reflect Effective Listening on the 30th Annual Mid-Winter Conference held at the YO Ranch Resort and Conference Sometimes we could all use a jumpstart, a tune- Center on Jan. 13–15. The turnout was one up or a makeover. No matter how long or short a of the biggest ever, and folks had a great time time we’ve spent toiling at our jobs, a new angle networking, exchanging ideas, and acquiring can enliven us and help connect all those loose new tools to assist to help them with their ends. TSABAA bi-monthly meetings can be the personal and professional development. means to accomplish just that. Shootoutat the Conference Chair Cecilia Whitley scored TSABAA meetings live up to their billing. YO a big A+ by lining up a top-notch To wit, the meetings “provide quality training group of interesting and insightful from noted experts speaking on subjects offering Revenue vs. Budget professional growth and quality managerial, TSABAA speakers. Here are some highlights: 30th Mid-Winter Conference���������������������������� ���������������������������������������������� John O’Brien, Director of the Legislative Budget technical and self-improvement training and Board (LBB), provided the group with interesting provide members with the opportunity to network albeit sobering news on the state’s economy, with other agency associates.” revenue projections and the budget forecast. -
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE March 31 of Staff; Without Amendment (Rept
3144 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE March 31 of Staff; without amendment (Rept. No. to the Committee on Post Ofiice and Civil H. Con. Res. 206. Concurrent resolution 1666). Referred to the House Calendar. Service. favoring the granting of the status of per Mr. SABATH: C9mmittee on Rules. House By Mr. STOCKMAN: inanent residence to certain aliens; to the Resolution 532. Resolution to direct the H. R. 7297. A bill to prevent Federal dam Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on Education and Labor to con and reservoir projects from interfering with duct an investigation of the Wage Stabili sustained-yield timber operations; to the zation Board; with amendment (Rept. No. Committee on Public Works. PETITIONS, ETC. 1667). Referred to the House Calendar. By Mr. WILLIAMS of Mississippi: Mr. SABATH: Committee on Rules. House H. R. 7298. A bill to authorize the consoli Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions Resolution 520. Resolution creating a se dation of the area of Vicksburg National Mili and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk lect committee to conduct an investiga tary Park, in the State of Mississippi, and for and referred as follows: tion and study of offensive and undesirable other purposes; to the Committee on Interior 658. By Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin: Petition books and radio and television programs; and Insular Affairs. of the Milwaukee Cooperative Milk Produc without amendment (Rept. No. 1668). Re ers. Over 1,000 people were present at the ferred to the House Calendar. annual meeting on March 11, 1952, to go on Mr. MADDEN: Committee on Rules. House MEMORIALS record opposing universal military service as Resolution 591. -
The Boeing Company and the Militarymetropolitanindustrial
1/3/2017 Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest About Us Events Classroom Materials Pacific Northwest Resources Quarterly The Boeing Company and the MilitaryMetropolitanIndustrial Complex, 19451953 Richard S. Kirkendall Pacific Northwest Quarterly 85:4 (Oct. 1994), p. 137149 This Boeing bomber embodies the transition to jet aircraft and the dependence on military that characterized company operations during the years following World War II. (Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Negative #10703. Photo by Boeing Company) The years of Harry Truman's presidency were crucial to the success of the Boeing Airplane Company. The president himself did not have close ties with the firm or great confidence in air power, but one part of the American state the air forcerecognized Boeing's ability to serve air force interests and was in a stronger position than ever before to pursue those interests. Furthermore, the company now had another ally willing to enter the political arena on its behalf. This was Seattle. The people there had a new commitment to Boeing. Taking advantage of cold war fears, air force leaders lobbied for funds to be spent on bombers, and Seattle people worked to draw that money to their city by way of Boeing. As a consequence of the successes of these two groups in the Truman years, the company acquired the resources it needed to become the world leader in building commercial jets. In battling for Boeing, Seattle participated in what President Dwight D. Eisenhower later called the "military industrial complex." A historian, Roger Lotchin, recently proposed "metropolitanmilitary complex" as a substitute for Eisenhower's term. -
Abstract the Movement for the Bricker Amendment: Its
ABSTRACT THE MOVEMENT FOR THE BRICKER AMENDMENT: ITS ORIGINS, GROWTH, AND FAILURE The purpose of the movement for the Bricker amendment was to amend the Constitution relative to the making of trea ties and executive agreements. This paper interprets the movement as part of a conservative reaction to the growth of internationalism and presidential power during and after World War II. Although this paper is concerned primarily with the politics of the movement, the legal aspects are described to the extent necessary to make the politics in volved comprehensible. The movement originated as a response to the fear that rights guaranteed in the Constitution could be forfeited by the government through the use of treaties and/or executive agreements. The Supreme Court allowed Congress to legislate in a formerly unconstitutional area in order to implement a treaty in the case of Missouri vs. Holland (1920). In the early 1950s, there were several UN proposals before the Sen ate concerning human rights. If they were adopted as trea ties, it appeared that Congress could legislate on these rights in any way desired. Implementing legislation might ii be acceptable to the Supreme Court, constitutional limitations notwithstanding. The importance of the American Bar Association (ABA) as a leading force in developing the movement into one of national significance is emphasized. The ABA's support of the movement added credence to the idea that the Constitution needed to be amended to safeguard the rights of American citizens. Despite the fact that Republican Senator John W. Bricker of Ohio introduced one of his proposals with more than two-thirds of the Senate as co-sponsors, it met with defeat in 1954. -
Segregation: New Trends
.te/r4 1 The one great rule We will serve no of composition is to nraUb or party but d to the speak the truth. ce),L find it T-IT1-stlY it as we —THOREAU opetus 919e Tpj e Texas Obser GJOUDIOGJO SJW An Independent-Liberal Weekly Newspaper Vol. 52 TEXAS, JULY 1, 1960 10c per copy No. 12 A More Liberal Austin Segregation: Conservative House Edge Drops by Eight AUSTIN in Houston which ousted four lib- four were defeated for reelection, A careful review of the eral House incumbents; and four voluntarily retired. New Trends platforms, campaigns, a n d (3) The unexpected liberal sweep of San Antonio; Houston, San, Antonio Front Our Louisiana man commented that illegitimacy political allegiances of the Liberal losses were centered in (4) The heavy turnover in con- Legislative Correspondent was a consequence of "the ethnic 181 legislators who will corn- Harris County, though there were servative ranks, with net losses, roots of the Negro race, a system prise the Texas House and occasional losses elsewhere in the BATON ROUGE, La. Senate for the next two years in the East Texas delegation. in which the mother bears full state. Turned out of office by the On July 27th in Louisiana responsibility for her offspring, points to the conclusion that conservative upsurge in Houston a new law takes effect mak- both branches, and particu- Veterans Swept Out and the stag roams at large." The losses among veteran con- were Dean Johnston, Bill Kilgar- ing it a crime punishable by The spokesman also dreaded a larly the House, will be more lin, Roger Daily, and Clyde Miller. -
State Offices on Line Saturday
The one great rule We will serve no group or party but of composition is to will hew hard to speak the truth. the truth as we find Ot.loto it and the right as —Thoreau Ohotrurt we see it. An Independent Liberal Weekly Newspaper Vol. 48 TEXAS, JULY 25, 1956 10c per copy No. 14 State Offices on Line Saturday AUSTIN Monday night television program that The Democratic voters of .Texas Shivers-Daniel Meeting, Money, was presented on stations all over the go to their school .houses and fire state. stations SatUrday to 'vote for the W. Lee O'Daniel boasted he'd win men they want to run Texas govern- CIO's . Role Are Hotly . Debated without a runoff. "When I sell thein ment and politics for the next two they stay sold,". he said "I learned in areas of public ethics, labor-man- "He was driven to the back door of that ixi the f tour business." years. agement relations, state taxation, so- the Governor's Mansion that night. Precinct conventions will decide cial welfare, states' rights, and inte- He conferred with the Governor Daniel asked hoW "a man" (O'Dan-, whether the loyalists who won the gration of the schools: (Shivers) alone. He left at night and iel) "can say he's running on the Golden Rule", and then "seem to be' Presidential • conventions of May. or Most voters have probably made up was flown out of Austin. Shortly trying tomake it appear that . I'm still the forces that have been led until re- their minds, but the candidates -let fly thereaftcr he announced for Governor cently by Allan Shivers will control I know this because the man Who a member of the Veterans' . -
Laws As Treaties?: the Constitutionality of Congressional-Executive Agreements, 99 MICH
Michigan Law Review Volume 99 Issue 4 2001 Laws as Treaties?: The Constitutionality of Congressional- Executive Agreements John C. Yoo University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr Part of the Constitutional Law Commons, International Law Commons, Legal History Commons, President/Executive Department Commons, and the Supreme Court of the United States Commons Recommended Citation John C. Yoo, Laws as Treaties?: The Constitutionality of Congressional-Executive Agreements, 99 MICH. L. REV. 757 (2001). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol99/iss4/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Michigan Law Review at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Michigan Law Review by an authorized editor of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LAWS AS TREATIES?: THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE AGREEMENTS John C. Yoo* TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 758 I. CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE AGREEMENTS AND THE INTERNATIONALIST VISION .......................... ....................................... 764 A. The Current Importance of Congressional-Executive Agreements ................................................................ ....................... 764 1. The Explosion of Congressional-Executive -
The Master of the Senate and the Presidential Hidden Hand: Eisenhower, Johnson, and Power Dynamics in the 1950S by Samuel J
Volume 10 Article 6 2011 The aM ster of the Senate and the Presidential Hidden Hand: Eisenhower, Johnson, and Power Dynamics in the 1950s Samuel J. Cooper-Wall Gettysburg College Class of 2012 Follow this and additional works at: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ghj Part of the Political History Commons, and the United States History Commons Share feedback about the accessibility of this item. Cooper-Wall, Samuel J. (2011) "The asM ter of the Senate and the Presidential Hidden Hand: Eisenhower, Johnson, and Power Dynamics in the 1950s," The Gettysburg Historical Journal: Vol. 10 , Article 6. Available at: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ghj/vol10/iss1/6 This open access article is brought to you by The uC pola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of The uC pola. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The aM ster of the Senate and the Presidential Hidden Hand: Eisenhower, Johnson, and Power Dynamics in the 1950s Abstract In March of 2010, renowned architect Frank Gehry unveiled his design for a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, D.C. Centered around an elaborate layout of stone blocks running along a city- block of Maryland Avenue is the featured aspect of Gehry‘s design: a narrative tapestry of scenes from Eisenhower‘s life. Over seven stories tall, the tapestry will impede the view of the building located directly behind it. That building is the Department of Education, named for Lyndon Johnson.1 Decades after two of the greatest political titans of the twentieth century had passed away, their legacies were still in competition.