Word: bipartisanism
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Above all, Muskie wants to revive a genuine bipartisan foreign policy by working closely with Senate Republicans. "The way to do it, and the way I did it in the Budget Committee, is to make clear to the minority that I am interested in their input. They have to be in on the takeoffs as well as the landings...
...Muskie trait could obstruct a bipartisan policy: his famed, explosive temper, which resembles the thunderous Mandalay dawn. His face reddens, his finger wags, he appears to swell even larger than his imposing 6 ft. 4 in., and then he erupts. But his fellow Senators, even those who have been the target of his wrath, think his temper is manageable. A pinstriped smoothie he may never be, but, says Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson, "He doesn't become irrational. He's not going to dump a bomb on the Soviet Union and then say: 'Let's negotiate...
...predicted "a slow evolution of bipartisan politics"--which the convicted dissidents advocated---adding that "the process of change could be expected to go on for a matter of decades, moving only very slowly...
Long and loudly as Republicans have proclaimed the necessity for a balanced mdget, the Administration already has ost its perhaps disingenuous hope for a bipartisan economic policy. A dozen Republican Senators turned out for a midweek press conference, at which they insisted that the budget must be balanced entirely through reductions in spending, with no revenue-raising measures. They want spending cuts much deeper than any that Carter will propose. Senator William Roth of Delaware has collected 46 signatures-including those of nine Democrats-on a resolution to limit federal spending to 21% of the gross national product (the dollar...
...share the pain, and round up support for what in the past has always been a very controversial process, the White House two weeks ago began an unusual attempt to shape a national and congressional consensus. It even brought the Republicans into what it hoped would be a bipartisan economic policy. The effort got under way with a kind of scaled-down version of last summer's "domestic summit" at Camp David. Top industrialists and Wall Streeters, representatives of farmers, blacks, elderly people, consumers and civic groups were called into the White House for a weeklong series of meetings...