Word: bipartisanism
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Dewey's own recommendation was for a new agency to administer the job of foreign aid, supervised by a "genuinely bipartisan board" (which was just about the projected shape of ERP). To be sure that the aid was not wasted by the recipients, Dewey urged that it be granted only in installments, each installment dependent upon proof that "the aid is being wisely employed for the purposes for which it is intended...
...work of the 80th Congress. McGrath spiked the resolution before it came to a vote. He remembered that many a Democrat had voted for Republican-sponsored measures, among them the Taft-Hartley labor law. He reminded his fellow Democrats that, when Congress reconvenes, the President hopes to get bipartisan support for his aid-Europe and hold-prices program...
...next day he added: "I do not think that any man who professes any loyalty to you would so seriously impair your prestige and the prestige of the Government. . . . You and I spent 15 months building a bipartisan policy ... a permanent policy upon which the world could rely. Wallace destroyed...
...Kelly did not intend to be thwarted again by the Commerce Commission. He went to Springfield and talked bipartisan turkey with Governor Dwight Green. Soon afterwards, in 1945, the state legislature passed a law setting up the Transit Authority. In another referendum, Chicago voters approved...
...Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Forty-seven has witnessed the return and triumph of Gamalielese conservatism in American domestic politics. But thanks to a bipartisan foreign policy this swing to the right has not yet produced a noticeable withdrawal from the international arena. Isolationism and pacifism are still discredited, and the United States seems conscious of its responsibilities as a "super-power" even if sometimes confused in their execution...