Word: bipartisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Javits of New York and Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island urged that the U.S. and other countries establish a huge airlift of food and medicine into Cambodia if Phnom-Penh persists in refusing to allow a "land bridge" for trucks to enter Cambodia from Thailand with supplies. A bipartisan group of 68 House members urged Carter to set up a joint airlift with the Soviet Union. The plan was first suggested by the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame. Said he: "I'm perfectly willing to ride in the lead truck and get shot...
...White House tapes that unwound Nixon's presidency? No, the conversation was taped on June 29, 1954, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who told then Vice President Nixon that his ''castigation'' of the Democrats was damaging the Administration's efforts to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy...
That is how TIME's Board of Economists views the Recession of '79, which it forecast as early as last November and which began in April. The bipartisan board agrees that the worst is yet to come: the recession will last 12 to 15 months rather than six to nine months, as previously forecast. The economy will shrink 3% during the decline rather than just 1% to 2%. Meanwhile, inflation will remain near 10%. Not until next summer will expansion resume, and even then it will be rather weak. Scarce and expensive energy will mean that growth throughout...
...Vance, raising funds to redo rooms and enhance the antiques in the State Department's elegant eighth-floor reception suite for foreign dignitaries, invited 177 well-heeled guests to a $1,000-a-plate dinner in Foggy Bottom. The appetizers included quail eggs stuffed with caviar and a bipartisan receiving line comprising Vance and his three living predecessors, Henry Kissinger, William Rogers and Dean Rusk. They and the guests sat down to a dinner of rockfish, roast pheasant, oyster plant on artichoke bottoms, wild rice with water chestnuts, salmagundi salad and brie, along with a '76 Pommard...
...seized the moment and focused on SALT as an occasion for a broad re-examination of the "total military and foreign policy relationship between the Soviet Union and the U.S." It was, in Baker's eyes, time to dispel the tattered remnants of Arthur Vandenberg's bipartisan tradition, something that was right a generation ago, just after World War II, but is not fully applicable in today's psychological struggles...