Word: bipartisanism
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...refreshingly candid and sensible thoughts about almost anything, is intriguing. Too bad Ronald Reagan, so eager to jolt the nomination race open with a startling vice-presidential choice, did not try to unify the party with Betty. For that matter, imagine that Jimmy Carter, in a mood of bipartisan unity and love, had selected Betty. That twosome might well have won the White House by acclamation, saving taxpayers the wear and expense of a fall campaign and November election...
Democrats were hoping that Ray had been sexually bipartisan. Though she did seem to favor the majority party, it was widely reported that one of the Senators with whom she was involved was a prominent Republican. But the Chicago Tribune's sensational report last week that she had tapes of her liaisons with 13 Congressmen and two Senators-recorded on a voice-activated machine secreted under her well-used bed-was incorrect...
...what we have been doing. We also have very little predictability with respect to foreign aid. We lack openly expressed and clearly understood goals. The American people are not part of the process. The Congress is not part of the process. We've lost our very precious bipartisan support that involved both Congress and the Executive...
...Taft Manning, 84, daughter of Republican President William Howard Taft. "Mrs. Robb and I gossiped about people at the White House. I have always admired the Johnsons," said Mrs. Manning. As for Susan, "She was the least bothersome photographer I have ever had, very professional and businesslike." Did the bipartisan progeny engage in any political shoptalk? Answered Manning quickly: "None at all, I assure...
...tapped only if they are "engaged in clandestine intelligence activities, sabotage, terrorist activities," are doing so under the "direction of a foreign power," and a federal judge issues a warrant. Ford has agreed to back it. At least, it beats showy confrontation, veto and stalemate. What with a bipartisan resolution attempting to take détente out of politics (see page 31), it just might be that the U.S. is rediscovering the art of compromise...