Word: bipartisanism
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When the President made an emphatic bid for tariff revision, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson tested Ike's determination to be bipartisan. Referring to Ike's backing down on his program last spring, even though the Democrats supported it, Johnson asked if they would "find the program pulled out from under us some fine morning...
...BIPARTISAN POLICY REQUIRES G.O.P. CHANGES
Arkansas' Democratic Senator J. W. FULBRIGHT, in the biweekly Reporter: THE President wishes to develop a bipartisan foreign policy in the Eighty-Fourth Congress. Without being unduly partisan, I feel that this desire for bipartisanship, although welcome, is a bit sudden. It is not easy, nor would it be wise, for Democrats to forget the appalling degree of venom shown by the Republicans during the campaign. Bipartisanship in foreign policy requires the exercise of restraint in a field where demagogy is inviting and comes easy. It is an ancient practice and a large temptation to exploit people...
...Pennsylvania Avenue, President Eisenhower one day played host to the men in charge on Capitol Hill. Top Republicans and Democrats from both the Senate and the House spent two hours at the White House, heard the President outline a principle and make a promise: he believes that a bipartisan policy on foreign and military affairs is "essential"; he will inform and consult congressional leaders, including Democrats, before major decisions are made. The Senators and Representatives went back to the hill anticipating a genuine effort toward cooperation and bipartisanship. Said Georgia's old (76) Democrat Walter George, who will head...
Congress in 1946 established the AEC as a nonpartisan, not as a bipartisan body. It was to be nonpolitical, not bipolitical. In fact, on this first commission there were three men who in private life had been active and influential Republicans. If the country and the Congress intend that the affairs entrusted to the AEC be administered on a political basis, i.e., be part of the Eisenhower and succeeding Administrations, the issue should be faced frankly and the law changed. We should not continue to drift into so momentous a change...