Word: bipartisanism
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Inexpensive passages for 7500 students and teachers planning to study and travel in Europe this summer will be provided under a resolution introduced in Congress yesterday by a bipartisan group of Senators. The resolution provides for round trip fares at a cost of less than...
...Threat to abandon the bipartisan foreign policy...
...consistently failed to uphold his bipartisan foreign policy...
...questions with firmness and relaxed good, humor. When a question was too technical, he was quick to admit that the questioner had gone over the narrow edge of his knowledge. A reporter pointed out that some "leading Republican papers" had inferred that "there has been some injury to bipartisan foreign policy." Acheson reddened slightly, and smiled. Was he looking at the injury? Acheson inquired amiably. The newsmen laughed, and the reporter backtracked hastily: "It was their insinuation, not mine." Well, said Acheson, he would do everything he could to keep the most bipartisan, nonpartisan and any other kind of antipartisan...
Acheson was confirmed, 83 to 6. But Vandenberg's speech reflected a change in the bipartisan foreign policy wrought by the election. Before the election, a Republican Congress and a Democratic Administration had shared the responsibility for foreign policy. Now that the Democrats had their own majority, the Republicans, as one of their Senate leaders put it, had only a "secondary responsibility...