Word: bipartisanism
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...bombing has brought the President under attack from home and abroad. Bipartisan Congressional pressure challenged the bombing and called for an immediate settlement in Paris. Meanwhile, the Australian government lodged a protest against the bombing. Canada's House of Commons unanimously condemned it, and the Pope described the air war as the "worst moment" of a terrible...
...often carried enough weight to offset the uneasy coalition of conservative Republicans and equally conservative Democrats that generally supports the President. A veteran of four House terms, Mathias is deeply concerned with the role of Congress. As co-chairman (with Senator Adlai Stevenson III) of a series of bipartisan hearings on the problem, Mathias said...
...President. If the President hurried along, he had reasons; he was heading for bigger pickings at dinner in Los Angeles. To join him at the table, California fat cats shelled out even more than the New Yorkers-a cool $ 1.7 million. Bob Hope was on hand with bipartisan gibes: "Jack Benny is a Republican for Mc-Govern-but only until he gets the $1,000" and "McGovern called his own headquarters, and Clark MacGregor answered the phone." Nixon sounded a loftier note. "We will end the war," he said-an echo from the campaign four years ago. His administration would...
...around the objections, Texas Senators John Tower and Lloyd Bentsen drafted a bipartisan measure which transfers the highway project from the federal to the state government. By so doing, no federal funds would be lost (the money could go to build another Texas interstate highway somewhere else...
...hopefuls studied at the feet of two masters of political cosmetics: spruce, wisecracking Roger Ailes, television adviser and image maker to President Nixon, and soft-drawling Gordon Wade, onetime director of communications for the Republican National Committee. Under the sponsorship of Kaiser Broadcasting, the pair have now held six bipartisan sessions in major cities, giving advice that ranges from the fundamental ("Money is the mothers' milk of politics") to the peripheral ("Get long socks. Nobody likes to see a patch of bare leg over a droopy sock"). Unusual as it seems, the idea is working. Said one Detroit...