Word: bipartisanism
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...Asked Congress to help him name a bipartisan commission for "a broad-gauge study" and "thorough reexamination" of U.S. foreign-trade policy. The commission's report, Eisenhower hoped, would become the "basis for action during the [1954] session of Congress...
...President's proposal got a warm bipartisan reception in both Houses of Congress, even though it was essentially the same as a plan sent up by Harry Truman in 1950. (Like Truman's, Ike's plan was based on recommendations of the Hoover Commission.) Truman was turned down because Republicans, many Democrats and the powerful American Medical Association mistrusted his Fair Dealing Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing, the man who would have got the Cabinet job in 1950. Congress suspected that Truman and Ewing would use the proposed Cabinet job for further expansion of the bureaucracy...
...enslavement resolution, which the Eisenhower Administration hoped would have bipartisan support, got tangled in Capitol Hill politics...
...bipartisan commission, headed by Washington Banker Daniel W. Bell and representing industry, labor and agriculture, was appointed last summer by President Truman. Some of its recommendations...
...lease and the neutrality act, he lost votes. Franklin Roosevelt saved him from defeat in the 1940 senatorial campaign. In 1934 Roosevelt publicly called him "old friend," and then invited him to a well-publicized White House luncheon as a campaign boost. After Pearl Harbor, Young Bob supported the bipartisan foreign policy, but late in the war he put on his old isolationist hat again. The United Nations, he said, was "a gilded façade for the old-style military alliance built exclusively on force...