George warned in the Senate , " I do not want a president of the U.S. to conclude an executive agreement which will make it unlawful for me to kill a cat in the back alley of my lot at night and I do not want the President of the U.S. to make a treaty with India which would preclude me from butchering a cow in my own pasture . " Senator George was ideal as an opponent as he was a hero to conservatives of both parties for his opposition to the New Deal and his survival of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's unsuccessful effort to purge him when he sought re-election in 1938 . " Democrats and Republicans alike respected him and recognized his influence . " Eisenhower worked to prevent a vote , telling Republican Senators that he agreed that President Roosevelt had done things he would not have done , but that the Amendment would not have prevented the Yalta Agreement . By the time the Senate finally voted on the Bricker Amendment on February 26 , thirteen of the nineteen Democrats who had co-sponsored it had withdrawn their support , at the urging of Senators Johnson and George . The original version of S.J. Res . 1 failed 42 – 50 . By a 61-30 vote , the Senate agreed to substitute George 's language for Bricker 's — if only ninety-one senators voted , sixty-one was the necessary two-thirds vote for final approval
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