Word: bipartisanism
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...Harry Truman's pronouncement that any piece of legislation was good, or bad for the country. The battle of Congress v. President, Republican v. Democrat, which would grow increasingly bitter, might stalemate some legislation still to be completed. The nation's foreign policy, already shaky on its bipartisan foundation, was an immediate case in point...
Little Sympathy. Were Congress and the people in a mood to sanction such vast foreign expenditures? In the Senate. Arthur Vandenberg made a practical suggestion: a bipartisan advisory council of citizens to survey the American economy, determine how much could be drained from it for transfusions to the world's economy without impairing U.S. health. But many a Congressman showed little sympathy for expanding U.S. ventures in internationalism. House-Senate conferees agreed on an import fee on wool which, if it became law, might wreck Administration efforts at Geneva for freer world trade (TIME, June 2). Marshall and Under...
American historians often refer to 1816 as the "era of good feeling," with reference to President Monroe's bipartisan election. Harvard chronicles of that year substitute the word "numb," more frequently when the thermometer on August 29 registered 37 degrees...
...Bilbo from taking his seat in the Senate, had finally confirmed David Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Taft shared credit for the first job and blame for the long delay in the Lilienthal case. Under the whip of Arthur Vandenberg, the 80th had backed the "bipartisan" foreign policy. Whether that backing would continue would depend somewhat on President Truman, somewhat on domestic politics. There were signs that the honeymoon was going stale...
...bill passed by a vote of 287 to 107. But the close Republican vote-127 to 93-made it plain that congressional support of every phase of the Administration's foreign policy was by no means on a bipartisan basis...