Word: bipartisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President reached back 30 years for his model of the kind of bipartisan support he would like to see in the Congress. Referring to the critics of our continued involvement in the world, he expressed hope that "we will get back to the post-World War II era, when Senator [Tom] Connally and Senator [Arthur] Vandenberg could and did work together to construct in the Congress a bipartisan foreign policy." He continued: "The role and the responsibility of the U.S. [is] to meet our obligations not only to ourselves and our security but, on a broader basis, to get some...
...always seemed a bit unfair that labor unions could collect money from their members for political candidates, while corporations have not been allowed to solicit. Now the bipartisan Federal Election Commission has evened things up. It ruled 4 to 2 last week that the Sun Oil Co. and all other companies could ask for contributions from its employees and stockholders for candidates that would be picked by company executives...
...Nazis were perfect devils, and the Japanese of that era were quite satisfactory villains too), the U.S. was not accustomed to moral ambiguities. It was ready to take on another foe with global ambitions: international Communism. The Truman Administration launched a challenge to Communist expansion with a degree of bipartisan support that the nation had never before known in peacetime - certainly not in the turbulent periods after World War I, when Senate leaders bitterly fought President Wood-row Wilson over U.S. membership in the League of Nations, and before World War II, when the country was deeply divided between isolationists...
Died. Perle Mesta, 85, capital society's "hostess with the mostes' "; of an apparent heart attack; in Oklahoma City. Famed as "Two-Party Perle" for her bipartisan hospitality, Mesta assembled Senators and Congressmen, celebrities, showpeople and occasionally Presidents for elaborately calibrated soirees over three decades. Perle's gaiety, feigned naughtiness and passion for scandalous secrets charmed a generation of guests. Heiress to fortunes from her father and her husband, a Pittsburgh steel magnate, she mastered machine-tool manufacturing, invested in cattle ranching, campaigned for an equal-rights amendment for women in the 1930s, and buttonholed Southwestern...
...added, "The President knows that he's said his piece; he did his best. If the Democrats won't do it, they won't do it." In fact, however, a considerable number of Republicans also oppose further aid; the developing majority against it will probably be bipartisan...