Word: bipartisanism
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...fledged recession," barked Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg as he swept through five of the hardest-hit states in a headline-catching tour. "If we don't take the proper action, we'll be in a depression." Avowed purpose of Goldberg's "nonpolitical" mission was to solicit bipartisan support for President Kennedy's plan to pass a depressed areas bill, grant $1.2 billion in federal subsidies to extend the duration of unemployment benefits and aid the children of the unemployed. To a cheering audience of Gary steelworkers, longtime United Steelworkers Counsel Goldberg said grandly: "In years past...
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Eager though he was to give his Cabinet a bipartisan look, President Kennedy made sure that his prospective Republican selections did not intend to use their secretarial posts as steppingstones to future political advancement-particularly as Republicans running against Democrats. Kennedy point-blank asked Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon whether he still had hopes of running for either Governor or Senator of New Jersey, got assurance that Dillon was willing to sacrifice his personal political ambitions. Until he selected Republican Dillon and Independent Bob McNamara for the New Frontier, Kennedy thought seriously about retaining Eisenhower Appointee Thomas Gates as Defense Secretary...
...wide-ranging, bipartisan force-from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall-was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills. New Mexico's Clint Anderson offered a resolution to change the Senate's notorious Rule 22 to allow three-fifths of the Senators present and voting to cut off debate, instead of the current hard-to-get two-thirds. Fair Dealer Humphrey upped the ante, asked cloture power for a mere majority of Senators. Georgia's Dick Russell objected...
Deliberately overlooked by Kennedy and by too large a segment of the voting public is the fact that despite control of both the House and Senate, the Democrats chose to ride the coattails of Eisenhower's immense international popularity by adopting a bipartisan policy on foreign affairs. If there is blame in the Cuban situation, the Democrats must share it. This includes Senator Kennedy...