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Time was when a change in political administrations meant bad news for the status quo, as new people and new policies descended on the seats of government. But in these calm days of courtesy and bi-partisanship, the old Jacksonian gusto seems to have been eclipsed by the politics of gentility. Nevertheless, the show must go on, if only to amuse the faithful. And this showmanship has been no-where more apparent recently than on Beacon Hill during the last two months, as the young Democratic Hercules, Foster Furcolo, waves his imaginary broom through the marble corridors of Boston...
Inspirational? One Americanism that irritates him, he told reporters, is the word hospitalized. "If a man is hospitalized, what is he when he is cured? De-hospitalized? Homeized?" He deplored the tendency to substitute alibi for excuse, called the phrase bi-partisan foreign policy absurd because it could only mean "doubly partisan." And what, he added, do Americans mean by inspirational-inspired or inspiring...
...President will be dealing with a Democratic Congress, but if he adopts a reasonable, bi-partisan, but vigorous attitude toward the pressing problems of domestic affairs, he can achieve a goal that is not only his, but that of all Americans. He can bring new opportunities to a new America...
...past two years, the nation has been ruled by a bi-partisan coalition in which the President and Congress have combined to conduct the essentials of government. Despite the lack of a clear public mandate for either branch, a Republican excutive and a Democratic legislature have nonetheless been able to hammer out effective compromises. Much of Eisenhower's record of positive achievements has been due to a Democratic Congress, which has supported him on the Bricker Amendment, foreign aid, and reciprocal trade. In contrast, many Republicans still vote against the concepts of foreign aid and of the United Nations. They...
...complicate matters even more, few Southern alumni of even a school such as Harvard are inclined to search for qualified Negroes. And even if the inclination were present, circumstances would not allow the type of social intercourse necessary to influence a student to consider a bi-racial school outside the South The barriers are too great...