Word: bipartisanism
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...with them the attendant progress toward East-West détente-had carried well enough. But the fact that the opposition C.D.U. had abstained almost to a man deprived Brandt of the "broad majority" he had labored to achieve and was a dismaying reversal of a carefully worked out bipartisan compromise...
Only two days earlier, the C.D.U. had decided to free its Deputies to vote for the treaties if they wanted to do so, after gaining their support for a bipartisan Bundestag resolution on West Germany's understanding of the pacts. On the eve of the scheduled vote, however, the C.D.U.'s conservative Bavarian wing, Franz Josef Strauss's Christian Social Union, decided to vote against the treaties. Faced with that threat to party unity, Barzel reversed course, and only three hours before the final Bundestag vote, ordered the C.D.U. Deputies to abstain from voting. By opting...
...believe that one great step toward such health, Mr. Chairman, would be the creation of a blue-ribbon bipartisan national commission to reflect upon this quarter-century tragedy and to distill its lessons for the future. I have in mind the creation, by the President or, if necessary, by the Congress, of a National Commission on the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the Indochina War. Such a proposal is not new. But it seems to me more imperative than ever that we make every effort to move from recrimination to reflection and understanding. I would hope that such a Commission...
...caucus is strictly bipartisan...
Tangible Proof. Wilbur Cohen, the former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who will write the recommendations on aging for the Democratic National Convention platform, thinks that the Democrats should push a bipartisan effort for property tax exemptions for the elderly who own homes assessed at less than $15,000 and for at least a 25% increase in Social Security benefits. That uncomplicated legislative program, coupled with some hard campaigning in states like California, Florida, Ohio, Michigan and New York -all of which have large populations of older voters-could mean a switch of 1,000,000 to the Democratic...