Word: bipartisanism
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...bipartisan group of reformers is made up of Republicans William Saxbe of Ohio and Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania and Democrats Alan Cranston of California and Harold Hughes of Iowa. Because this was their first term, they were not accustomed to the quaint ways in which the Senate fails to conduct its business, and they felt frustrated. Saxbe, who knows how to exert power as a result of his experience as a speaker of the Ohio house of representatives, complained last summer that "anyone who thinks being a Senator is fun just hasn't had much." Cranston, equally irked...
...that the last thing any Democrat should do right now is identify the party with Nixon's economics. Says one Texan who knows both Johnson and Connally well: "The President [Johnson] feels that Nixon could be had on the economic issue." Nixon, announcing the appointment, pleaded for a bipartisan approach to the nation's problems. If that is what he really wants, he might have chosen instead to install a more liberal Democrat where it really counts-as Attorney General, say, or as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...ceiling on candidates' expenditures for political advertising on TV and radio. It was also made clear to G.O.P. Senators that support of the veto was to be a test of party loyalty. The bill had been a popular measure, passing the Senate 60-19. While its backing was bipartisan, Nixon's veto was not. The Republicans have more campaign funds to spend than the Democrats and thus have more to lose by an expenditure limit. Another point on many legislators' minds was the belief that the public is increasingly opposed to lavish campaign spending...
...Cold War ideology declared a state of permanent emergency in the federal government after World War II. It justified extraordinary expenditures of economic and military aid, united the Congress and the Executive behind a bipartisan foreign policy, and justified an activist posture abroad. To abandon that anti-Communist internationalism now would severely impede the President's freedom of movement in foreign affairs-an obsessive fear with Nixon during debates over the Hatfield-McGovern amendment, for he is a determined activist. Foreign policy, he has said, is almost the sole business of the President. The running of the "free world...
During a political journey to Georgia last week, where the President encountered Governor Lester Maddox, greeted black schoolchildren and pressed the flesh in behalf of Hal Suit, the Republican candidate for Governor, Nixon repeatedly paid tribute to backers of his plan in both parties. "It was a bipartisan speech," he proclaimed. "There was no partisanship in it. When people are working for peace, there are no politics in it." The Senate quickly and unanimously voted a resolution of support. Even though a lone irate Republican in Congress telephoned Henry Kissinger to complain that Nixon should have saved the speech until...