Word: bipartisanism
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First, Eisenhower told a news conference, he will hold his annual session with congressional leaders of both parties. This, he said, will be "in the tradition of bipartisan responsibility for keeping the country on a single track in foreign relations...
...Cheapest We Spend." On Tuesday night he summoned a ten-man, bipartisan group of House and Senate leaders to his upstairs study for an after-dinner conference, with no aides present. The President insisted that the mutual-aid authorization bill represented a rock-bottom figure for U.S. security. Next day he went even farther. About a dozen White House newsmen, straggled into the office of Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty for the routine afternoon briefing. "Guess we won't need this," said one, indicating his note paper. Replied Hagerty: "I haven't anything to say to you today...
Such is the regard in which he is held in the Senate that he is continually nominated for key bipartisan jobs-flying around the world to inspect World War II battle points, skillfully presiding over the explosive, eight-week Senate investigation into Harry Truman's firing of Douglas MacArthur, etc. Twice-in 1951 and 1953-the Senate Democratic leadership was offered him, and twice he gracefully declined. "I'm more concerned with my own thinking," he said, "than with the Democratic Party nationally...
Died. Walter Franklin George, 79, patriarchal "Senator's Senator," recent compelling voice for American bipartisan foreign policy. Democratic Senator from Georgia from 1922 to 1956, when President Eisenhower made him U.S. Ambassador to NATO; of a heart ailment; in home-town Vienna, Ga. Born on a poor Georgia farm, George rose from a Georgia lawyer to associate justice on the State Supreme Court. Elected to the Senate, George began serving (1926) on the tax-writing Finance Committee, soon was recognized as the Chamber's tax expert. He fought off Franklin Roosevelt's 1938 attempt to dump...
...Noted with approval Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's announcement that, in keeping with a White House request, he would help set up a bipartisan senatorial panel to consult with the Administration on the five-nation disarmament talks in London. The Senators appointed, said Texas Democrat Johnson, would go to London "at any time the President deems it essential...