Word: bipartisanism
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Already Bill Knowland had met with fellow Republican congressional leaders at a nine-hour White House session, lunched with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, attended a bipartisan legislative conference at the White House, worked at reshuffling the Senate's Republican high command, helped draft a unanimous-consent agreement under which the Senate would debate a change in its rules, and assisted in writing a resolution paving the way for President Eisenhower's Middle East message to a joint session of Congress. All this was part of Knowland's job as leader of a Senate minority that...
...Georgia's retired Democratic Senator Walter George as his special assistant (with the rank of ambassador) to be a presidential emissary to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and adviser on "development and implementation of bipartisan foreign policy." Salary: $20,000 a year...
...face of the Eisenhower landslide in 1952, Mansfield unseated Republican Senator Zales Ecton and moved to the other end of the Capitol. On the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mansfield won bipartisan respect for his carefully thought out, independent views, e.g., foreign aid administered with a high degree of selectivity and a close eye on costs ("I do not agree with those who argue that U.S. leadership requires us to spend billions simply to prove that we are more generous than the Russians"). In 1954 Dwight Eisenhower named him a delegate to the Southeast Asia Conference that resulted in the SEATO...
...report estimated that 65 per cent of Yale's undergraduates favor Eisenhower, although they were described as bipartisan in their ability to create demonstrations. They booed Vice-President Nixon last Thursday and they staged a "near riot" when Stevenson appeared there...
Instantly the denizens of Denison (pop. 19,984) leaped into a bipartisan fury, charging that Ike indeed was born in Denison and was so registered in the county records. Not so reckoned one Paul Bunting of Tyler (pop. 51,540): Ike's father bought a home in Tyler when Ike was 11 months old, and if it is true, as Ike's mother has said, that she "carried" Ike in Tyler, why then he "might" have been born there. From a rancher came a letter insisting that Ike came from Commerce, Texas (pop. 6,200). Then the word...