Word: bipartisanism
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...directed the members to leave wives and tuxedos at home-the committee wrote a compelling, detailed report on what was needed to revive the prostrate continent. Above all, it was Herter's support and advocacy, along with Arthur Vandenberg's in the Senate, that forged the bipartisan coalition without which the Marshall Plan could never have become U.S. policy...
Then, at a year-end meeting of the nation's Governors at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the talk that the President might step aside took on an uncomfortably bipartisan ring. A cloud of astonishingly bitter anti-Johnson sentiments arose from the 18 Democratic chief executives present. Blaming Johnson for defeats in November, the Governors castigated him for pressing certain unpopular and unwanted Great Society programs on the public, for displaying an insulting lack of interest in local campaigns and for letting the National Democratic Committee disintegrate into a useless organization. "Some of the people," said Illinois Governor Otto...
...urgently needed change was supported by 62% of the voters. Under Uruguay's old constitution, the country was ruled by bipartisan, nine-man councils and the nominal presidency was rotated. The councils spent more time bickering than governing; the few decisions that did finally emerge only expanded an already unwieldy and extremely generous welfare program. To pay its bills, the government simply printed more money, while the economy went to pieces. The cost of living rocketed 90% last year, the peso has been fluctuating erratically, and foreign debt has jumped to more than $500 million...
...President has shown his duplicity by trying to make his policy seem bipartisan. This tactic of obtaining the cooperation of the opposition should not be used as a political trick. Rather bipartisanship, in its noble sense, aims to bring a viable policy from conception into reality...
Nixon, campaigning in New England, kept his cool. He remarked that the President had been guilty of a "shocking display of temper" and that his attack had "broken the bipartisan line on Viet Nam policy." Bipartisanship, he went on, meant joint participation and responsibility, "not abject approval of whatever policy the President may announce...