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...newspapers, in other words, should not be asked to do anything that will prevent them from shattering the antique concept of non-partisan support of the Administration's foreign policy. The concept is no less dangerous because it is so old; Senator Vandenberg's aims no longer seem to apply. In a curious way the government has helped perpetuate the idea (Kennedy called it "utopia" in his speech) that not only politics but dissent as well stop at the waterline, by recruiting many of its most active critics into the Executive branch. The concentration of a body of experts, combined...
First, the Peace Corps concept is essentially non-partisan. Rep. Frank Bow (R., Ohio) considered introducing similar legislation two years ago. Both Mason Sears and Henry A. Wallace have endorsed the suggestion for a non-military national service. The Congressional proposal for a study of a Point Four Youth Corps gained bi-partisan support...
During the debate, there was controlled laughter, most of it at Nixon's expense. "I know Mr. Khrushchev" drew ripples, but the greatest (and most non-partisan) outburst came when Nixon declared: "America is not standing still, but America can't stand...
...often is, he grabs an arm or shoulder in a bruising grip, and a hint of the carnival snake-oil seller shows in his voice. His fellow Senators joke about the lavish vanity of his tailoring and his baronial Senate office?but they respect him, too. Last June the non-partisan Congressional Quarterly polled Senators and Representatives on who they thought would be the Democratic Party's "strongest possible" presidential candidate; of the 220 members who replied, 54% named Lyndon Johnson, only 20% named Jack Kennedy (Adlai Stevenson came in third with...
Basically, the CCA represents what can easily be termed the "better elements" of the Cambridge community, the intelligentsia. Non-partisan in scope, the CCA preaches a goal of "Good City Government for Cambridge." Ideally, this vague phrase should stand for the best in American democracy--that is, an honest, efficient, and just administration--an objective the CCA says Cambridge deserves. Practically speaking, however, the phrase means something negative: to keep the traditional bossism, favoritism, and power politics out of Cambridge's city government...