Word: bipartisanism
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...security program are obvious, as is the Administration's reluctance to make the needed revisions. These improvements must consequently come from outside the Executive Branch. The most promising source at the moment is the senate proposal to establish a Commission on government security. Such a body would be completely bipartisan and unbiased--its members chosen from both within and outside of the Government--and it would report by March, 1956 on legislative or administrative improvements needed by the security set-up. Presumably the committee's recommendations would have enough authority, especially in an eledtion year, to convince the Administration...
Before he had gone far in his State of the Union Message, the President returned to his bipartisan reference: "At this time the executive and legislative branches are under the management of different political parties. This fact places both parties on trial before the American people. In less perilous days of the past, division of governmental responsibility among our great parties has produced a paralyzing indecision. We must not let this happen in our time . . . In all areas basic to the strength of America there will be-to the extent I can insure them-cooperative, constructive relations between the executive...
...first time I've known you could caucus in bed." Having run through his quips, the new Senator proceeded to batter those politicians who had resorted to "character assassination" in 1954-to the acute annoyance of Republicans in his audience. Washington's fleeting mood of bipartisan sweetness and light was jarred...
This week, as the U.S. Capitol vibrated with the bustle of its biennial rite, the convening of a new Congress, lawmakers were engaged in two kinds of positioning. On the surface, Democrats were taking control from Republicans with hearty promises of bipartisan cooperation on foreign policy, and arranging themselves according to time-honored courtesies and the unwritten rules of seniority. Beneath the surface, the political footwork was livelier, with every step taken in anticipation of the 1956 campaign...
...issues weighed last week would be formally laid before the Congress in the President's State of the Union message on Jan. 6, a date that Sam Rayburn, when Ike suggested it at the bipartisan conference, heartily seconded: Jan. 6 will be Mr. Sam's 73rd birthday. "Swell," said the President; maybe there would be a present for Sam in the speech...