Word: bipartisanism
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Abroad. In international affairs, the 81st's record-like the 80th's−was good. Under bipartisan leadership, the Senate approved the North Atlantic Treaty,, the first peacetime alliance with European nations in U.S. history, and a $1 billion program to help arm the alliance. After a seizure of quibbling, Congress authorized a generous $5.4 billion appropriation for EGA. The hobbling "peril-point" amendment was struck off the reciprocal-trade program, and the authority extended two years. The 81st also gave U.S. defense all that the President had asked-and decided that he had not asked enough...
Dulles' supporters have stressed his experience in foreign affairs as United Nations delegate and a man who can "talk back to Stalin." They see him keeping Republican senators in line behind the bipartisan foreign policy...
...foreign policy, the record of President-Congress cooperation was much better than on the domestic front. Bipartisan policy was continued this year with the North Atlantic Treaty, the Mutual Assistance Program, and extension of ERP. The Administration succeeded in extending reciprocal trade agreements in spite of strong Republican opposition...
Brownie was a pal of the sheriff. The papers, on the other hand, were after him hot & heavy. So were a lot of the citizenry. In fact a bipartisan committee headed by Admiral Thomas L. Gatch, the retired Pacific war hero, was trying to kick the sheriff, diamond-studded badge and all, out of office by way of a recall election...
...Despite all the talk about economizing, the House had only pecked away at the President's own bloated budget. The Senate in turn had only pecked away at the House's appropriations; more frequently the Senate had actually increased the sums recommended by the House. A small, bipartisan bloc of economy-minded Senators had fought steadily for 5%-to-10% cuts, but just as steadily a Senate majority had overruled them. The discouraged economizers tried the only course left to them. They tried to pass the buck back to the President...