Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Roosevelts and the two President Adamses, Dean Don K. Price Jr. of the government school said that "it is unusual to have a Harvard graduate assassinated while serving as President of the United States." The director of the institute, Dr. Richard Neustadt, insisted that it is "wholly nonpartisan and wholly Harvard"-and one university professor sniffed that "it might be easier to get control of the Government than of Harvard...
...eleven-member advisory committee, including Jacqueline Kennedy and five other friends of the family, meets biannually to discuss the institute, but has no authority over its staff or the school of government. Both Harvard officials and Kennedy friends insist that the institute's nonpartisan goal is to fill a significant gap in the academic world. In essence, it has been designed as a temporary center of intellectual refreshment for the modern breed of academic activist whose real love is to make and execute federal policy-yet who also cannot live too long without some contact with the world...
...nonpartisan National Committee for the Effective Congress last week urged Massachusetts voters to elect Republican Edward Brooke rather than Democrat Endicott Peabody, to the U.S. Senate...
Though Los Angeles politics are nominally nonpartisan, Sam was, in fact, the first Democrat elected mayor in more than 50 years. That should have made California Democrats happy, but it emphatically did not. Sam had already shown his maverick streak by supporting Republican Richard Nixon against Jack Kennedy in 1960 after his first choice, Lyndon Johnson, had lost to J.F.K. for the Democratic nomination. When Nixon ran for the California governorship against Pat Brown...
Firsthand Look. To lend the trip suitable nonpartisan trappings, the President corralled three Republican Congressmen to join his party of 100, picked up others along the way. In Buffalo, he also met New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and they both took a look at sewage-contaminated water. In Syracuse, the crowd of 100,000 in Columbus Square listened to Johnson's review of the cities' plight, but really stirred only when New York's Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Jacob K. Javits arrived. Bobby evoked shrieks, was still shaking hands as the President climbed...