Word: bipartisanism
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What is needed now is a bipartisan congressional committee headed by individuals whose honesty is unquestioned, like Senators Hugh Scott and Hubert Humphrey, to ferret out those in Congress whose campaigns have received illegal corporate financing...
...stability" of the international order depends on the containment of the liberation movements and the preservation of pro-US regimes in this strategic area more than in any other. Finally, a successful Persian Gulf intervention appears as the master-stroke that can reconstitute the Vietnam-torn fabric of the bipartisan domestic consensus on foreign policy...
...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...