Word: bipartisanism
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...special mission of a profoundly concerned Henry Kissinger somehow to preserve and nurture the fragile global tranquillity that has been achieved, to push it beyond the poison of Watergate and define a bipartisan national purpose and leadership that can keep up the momentum for peace...
...Ervin Committee hearings will resume today as former Attorney General John N. Mitchell testifies about his role in the ever-widening Watergate scandal. Meanwhile, the controversy surrounding President Nixon's silence in the affair broadened yesterday as bipartisan criticism of Nixon's refusal to appear before the Committee erupted...
...expanded bipartisan effort to convince the President to publicly discuss any part he may have played in the Watergate scandal has taken several forms. Many Republicans and Democrats have united in recommending that the president disclose his knowledge of the affair at a press conference, before the Ervin Committee and by release of all White House files concerning the scandal...
...bill lowering the ceiling for individual contributions from $3,000 to $500. Vermont is considering a law that all state employees must disclose their financial interests, and Florida last month put new enforcement teeth into its already formidable "who gave it, who got it" election law, creating a bipartisan elections committee with the power to institute civil and criminal actions...
Potential Problems. The President's overall policy of détente enjoys wide bipartisan support. But there is considerable disenchantment, particularly in the Midwest, over the Administration's handling of last year's $1 billion wheat sale to the Russians. Though widely approved at the time, the sale in retrospect appears to have been a disastrous example of official mismanagement and blundering-subsidized by $300 million in taxpayers' money and a major factor in spiraling prices...