Word: bipartisanism
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Just a year ago, the Congress-and much of the U.S.-was skeptical and wary of the newly created Peace Corps. Last week, as it celebrated its first birthday, the Peace Corps bathed in the warm glow of bipartisan praise-and knew just how to use its popularity to advantage. President Kennedy submitted legislation to increase the Corps' authorized strength from 2,400 to 6,700 by mid-1963, noting that the Corps' "early successes have fulfilled expectations." Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver went before a House committee to ask $63.7 million for fiscal 1963, more than...
...Established by Congress in 1916, the six-man Tariff Commission is bipartisan by law. Appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, the members serve terms of six years...
McCormack was an expert poker player, a talent that endeared him to Jack Garner, who was later called "a poker playing, whisky-drinking, evil old man" by John L. Lewis, and whose own political career had been given a hefty bipartisan push forward by a poker-playing Republican, "Uncle Joe" Cannon. McCormack became a Garner protégé. At the beginning of McCormack's second full term, the Democrats took control of the House, and McCormack went to Speaker Garner with a timid request for an assignment to the Judiciary Committee. "Hell," growled Garner, "we want...
...married "Princess Alice" Roosevelt, Teddy's daughter. He was an elegant, scrupulously fair presiding officer, and a skilled parliamentarian who won friends on both sides of the aisle and prestige for the House through his assumption that all Representatives were as honorable and gentlemanly as himself. With his bipartisan "Big Five," he set the pace for the famed "Board of Education," an informal gathering where the leaders of both parties could get together after each day's session for drinking and legislative planning...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, defeated in 1960 when he proposed compulsory home fallout shelters, offered a new plan that has bipartisan support and should win speedy approval in a special session of the legislature opening next week. Under it, the state would help finance shelters to protect all 4,063,000 students and staff members of New York's schools and colleges, both public and private. The state would fully finance shelters for its own 115,000 employees. Homeowners would get no state money, but would get help in securing bank loans to build shelters, and legal...