Word: bipartisanism
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...official reason for the recall was that the President wants Democrat Richards to take part in a bipartisan meeting on foreign aid at the White House. But beyond that was a factor that at once highlighted the success of the Richards tour and limited its future usefulness. A few days earlier, the U.S. Sixth Fleet, dispatched to the Eastern Mediterranean to "hold up the hand" of Jordan's King Hussein against his enemies, churned the waters from Syria to Egypt in a dramatic display of U.S. might. At the same time Jordan requested-and Washington immediately supplied...
...civil rights bill would also provide for a new Assistant Attorney General to handle civil rights cases and would set up a six-member bipartisan commission with subpoena powers to conduct a two-year study of civil rights. But it is around the provision granting the Attorney General the power to file civil suits that the storm of criticism and reply has blown up. Arguments...
Natural Gas. Still blackened and chastened by the explosion over high-pressure lobbying on the gas bill that prompted President Eisenhower to veto their bill last session, congressional Democrats are cautious. Though the President last week endorsed a new bipartisan measure now -, before Congress as agreeing in general "with the criteria that I announced as necessary in a bill which I would approve," Democrats are holding back. Said Acting Majority Leader Mike Mansfield last Week: "There will be no gas bill this time unless and until the President takes and maintains the leadership for it all the way." Prognosis: doubtful...
...tried their new seats on for size. All had one problem in common: how to spend more money without raising new taxes. Some faced opposite-party legislatures, others the need for representative reapportionment. Yet for the group as a whole, gubernatorial faces were lit with the fresh glow of bipartisan good fellowship. Items...
...lead. With a final tally of almost 390,000 votes counted, the board of elections declared Del Sesto the victor by 427. Unwilling to have the office pass out of Democratic hands after 16 years' continuous control, Roberts ignored the board's verdict and the widespread bipartisan enthusiasm for Winner Del Sesto, decided to stake his chances on a last-hope technicality...