Word: bipartisanism
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Thus it was a relief for Kennedy to take off on what White House staffers, with straight faces, called a "nonpolitical" weekend trip. In speeches in South Dakota, Colorado and California, he stuck mainly to bipartisan subjects of interest in the West: conservation and reclamation, water and power, floods and dams. But he well knew that for a politician there is no such thing as a nonpolitical handshake -and that the folks beaming up at him would suffer no amnesia on election...
Died. Stanley Myer Isaacs, 79, white-haired political reformer and onetime Republican borough president of Manhattan (1938-41), who later served for 20 years (often as the only Republican) on the New York City Council, earned the bipartisan support of both Democrats and Liberals for his long fight to clean up the city's festering slums; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Under attack by medical lobbies and opposed by most Republican and many Democratic Senators, the Kennedy Administration's King-Anderson bill to provide hospital care for the aged under social security has disappeared from view. In its place last week appeared a bipartisan compromise disguised in the legislative equivalent of a newly donned jacket and a different style of hairsplitting. But though the disguise failed to alarm King-Anderson's friends, it also failed to fool its opponents-even if the clothes were a bit more conservative...
...West, the course of the cold war, and the growth of our nation for a generation or more to come." All the living ex-Presidents-Republicans Hoover and Eisenhower as well as Democrat Truman-came out for its passage. The Committee for a National Trade Policy, a bipartisan business group, strove to convince the nation of the bill's importance...
...Charles B. Shuman: The outcome was a victory for "farmers, consumers and taxpayers," and for "constitutional government" too. "The American people should know the extent to which the executive branch of Government sought to bully or buy votes with political pressure. It's reassuring to know that a bipartisan majority of the House was able and willing to resist this shameful interference with the legislative process...