Word: bipartisanism
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...Martin approved the bipartisan foreign policy of Vandenberg. But Taft had voted against many of the instruments of that policy: the World Bank and the World Fund, reciprocal trade agreements, the British loan. The continuation of such national policies could crack open and vitiate U.S. foreign policy...
...wheelhorse Republicans) into a triumph over high-powered, high-minded Democratic incumbent Jerry Voorhis. To beat Voorhis, ex-Navy Lieut. Commander Nixon, 33, passed around 25,000 white plastic thimbles labeled:-"Elect Nixon and needle the P.A.C." He plugged hard for veteran's housing, end of controls, a bipartisan foreign policy, politely avoided personal attacks on his opponent...
From Nanking to London, there was much less uncertainty in the political prospect than in the economic. The essentials of the Byrnes-Vandenberg bipartisan internationalist line had been laid down so firmly that no well-informed observer expected the Republicans to repeat 1920 by pulling the U.S. back into its shell. But much of the world which had forgotten the extreme economic nationalism of the early New Deal remembered the Republican high-tariff tradition and the Republican pledges of rigid economy...
TIME'S London Bureau Chief John Osborne reported: "The British press almost with one voice told Britons that a Republican victory need not alter America's recent bipartisan foreign policy in so far as it is a political policy. But they were told to expect less and less economic sympathy or help from a Republican America...
...Warren, Harold Stassen-and Ed Martin. To extreme New Dealers perhaps all of these men except Earl Warren and Harold Stassen were anathema. But not to the country at large. Senator Vandenberg had joined freely and courageously with Secretary of State Byrnes to form the nation's strong, bipartisan foreign policy. Taft's cold, moral judgment and insistence on getting at the facts had more than once saved the Senate from hysterical legislation. Dewey's businesslike administration of New York has won him a popularity which would apparently re-elect him by a landslide. What about...