Word: bipartisan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill simply went too far. It antagonized not only Southerners but many Republicans and moderate Democrats who questioned its sweeping grants of federal authority. Celler also angered Ohio Republican William McCulloch, ranking minority member of the civil rights subcommittee, by ramming through the changes without any effort toward bipartisan consultation...
...impossible to justify on the grounds of military necessity the refusal to tell Republicans what Democrats already know. And when even the Senate minority leader cannot find out what the government is doing, Kennedy should hardly feel betrayed if Senator Keating does not recognize the existence of a bipartisan foreign policy...
...working for that which I think is right for Arkansas, so that we will take our position with the ranks of states with dignity, not buffoonery." In a more private moment, he built a monument to understatement: "I have a sneaking suspicion that the Governor's bipartisan policy is coming...
Thus it was a relief for Kennedy to take off on what White House staffers, with straight faces, called a "nonpolitical" weekend trip. In speeches in South Dakota, Colorado and California, he stuck mainly to bipartisan subjects of interest in the West: conservation and reclamation, water and power, floods and dams. But he well knew that for a politician there is no such thing as a nonpolitical handshake -and that the folks beaming up at him would suffer no amnesia on election...
Died. Stanley Myer Isaacs, 79, white-haired political reformer and onetime Republican borough president of Manhattan (1938-41), who later served for 20 years (often as the only Republican) on the New York City Council, earned the bipartisan support of both Democrats and Liberals for his long fight to clean up the city's festering slums; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...