Word: bipartisanism
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...President's requests are obviously necessary and relatively free from legal controversy. A bipartisan commission to investigate denials of the right to vote and "unwarranted" economic pressure is valuable to put the whole problem in a clear perspective. And an assistant attorney general in charge of civil rights is justified if for no other reason than the increased legal activity in that field...
...name. The Post's latest crusade has been to build a fire under the clean elections bill now before the Senate with 85 Senators as its joint sponsors. Based on a Graham idea, the bill would outlaw heavy individual campaign contributions, provide for financing campaigns instead through bipartisan mass money-raising...
...least drastically limited when he knows in advance that proposals which are fully adequate to the evolving world situation are likely to precipitate not only a difficult public debate but a costly, deeprooted, bitter division within his own party in Congress. The fact that he can count on a bipartisan majority will be scant consolation if the biggest part of that majority is provided by his pilitical opponents...
Truman said that what worries him most in the political scene of 1956 was "the shambles that is being made of our bipartisan foreign policy." His story: "I did everything I could to keep foreign policy out of partisan politics. But the Republican politicians attacked our foreign policy so violently in the 1952 campaign, they were stuck with their own propaganda. They had to pretend to change the foreign policy whether the change was good for the country or not. [They] cut down our armed forces-in the face of growing Communist strength -so they could claim to reduce Government...
...brief-and generally unnoticed-paragraphs in the President's 1956 State of the Union message opened the campaign. One called upon Congress to authorize a bipartisan fact-finding commission on civil rights. The other promised future recommendations for legislation "to assure our citizens equality in justice, in opportunity, and-in civil rights...