Word: bipartisanism
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...highballed through the Senate by Texas' Tom Connally in 1946. The following year the A.B.A. resoundingly urged its repeal on grounds that the Connally Reservation, rather than protecting the U.S.. would cripple the workings of the World Court to the eventual detriment of U.S. interests. A bipartisan campaign to repeal the Connally Reservation has won the backing of President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Herter, Attorney General William Rogers, Democratic Senators Hubert Humphrey, J. William Fulbright and John Kennedy. It may pass the Senate next year. Hoping to influence the Senate's decision, a conservative...
...York Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr., political boss of Harlem. He insisted on attaching the old familiar "Powell Amendment," a rider that would withhold federal funds from segregated schools. Powell occasionally manages to tack on his nuisance amendment, sometimes killing a decent bill because Southerners balk. In a bipartisan attempt to save school aid, the Administration offered House Democratic leaders a substitute measure similar to the Democratic bill. They agreed to the substitution, and if the maneuver had worked, it would have neatly sidestepped the Powell Amendment. But Indiana's House Minority Leader Charles Halleck, determined foe of federal...
...growing out of the Paris summit conference might change the whole picture.Such a time of national peril, they suggested, could make the Democratic Convention reject Kennedy as too young and too inexperienced to cope with Nikita Khrushchev. A better crisis candidate, the whisper went, might be Johnson, the cool, bipartisan helmsman, or Symington, the military expert, or Stevenson, the internationalist. It all had the sound, though, of whistling in the growing dark...
When the depressed-areas bill got to the Senate, Democrats invoked the sure-fire election-year argument of aid to the needy at home v. handouts abroad. Presidential Candidate Lyndon Johnson, the bipartisan good shepherd of mutual-security requests over the years, spoke sharply of the Administration's "double standard" in aid giving. Illinois' white-haired Paul Douglas, up for election and therefore sounding oddly like the influential Chicago Tribune, hefted a book of aid-appropriation requests weighing 6 lbs., called for charity at home to match the "billions upon billions of dollars" sent overseas. Candidates Jack Kennedy...
...York campaign song, the Bowery touches in his speech ("raddio," "horspital," etc.)-grated on Americans west of the Hudson River, emphasizing for them his alien, big-city background. Kansas' William Allen White, widely heeded editor of the Emporia Gazette, expressed the fears and suspicions of a broad, bipartisan segment of the U.S. when he wrote that the "whole puritan civilization, which has built a sturdy, orderly nation, is threatened by Smith...