Word: bipartisanism
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...would have to run on his own. By the same token, some Democrats reason it might be better to keep the Administration dangling on the Watergate hook until 1976, even if Nixon should turn out to be impeachable. Democratic Congressman Henry S. Reuss raised anew the possibility of a bipartisan, caretaker Government under Speaker of the House Carl Albert until the next election-a prospect possible only in the unlikely event that Agnew should voluntarily resign along with Nixon...
...treaties with Moscow and Warsaw came up for ratification in the Bundestag, he failed for months to make up his mind what party policy should be. Just before the Bundestag debate on the treaties, he decided that the C.D.U.-C.S.U. deputies should vote against ratification; then, after a bipartisan policy declaration had been worked out, he said he would allow a free vote. Under pressure from C.S.U. Leader Franz Josef Strauss, he changed his mind again and said that the opposition should abstain on the vote. It was an unconvincing display of leadership. Barzel made it even less convincing...
...sound theory that the Administration simply cannot be trusted to investigate itself, no matter how independent Attorney General Richardson may prove to be, a bipartisan clamor arose for him to name an outside prosecutor in the Watergate case. Nixon said Richardson was free to do so, and the Attorney General-designate indicated that he will...
This city has remained Democratic despite Nixon's efforts to make it bipartisan, so its feelings tend to be exaggerated. The fraternity of ex-White House aides believes that it would be impossible for a President to remain as ignorant of events as the White House indicates. "You don't lie to a President," said one former White House aide. "I can't imagine any man working with the President who would keep such facts from him," said another...
...rigid standards of old-fashioned morality, to a stern and equal application of law, to an open and accountable Administration. Until the Watergate mess is cleared up, Nixon's closest political and official associates -and the President himself-will be operating under the handicap of a widespread and bipartisan suspicion that they have something sinister to hide...