Word: nonpartisanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Democrats are baffled about how best to exploit this unique circumstance. They worry about whether their party's most effective course is to try to make capital out of the possible impeachment proceedings or make a show of ignoring it under the pretense of solemn nonpartisanship. Lately, Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss has been trying a bit of both strategies...
...filed resolutions with five corporations--Chase Manhattan Bank, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Ford, J.C. Penney and Xerox--calling on them to publish in newspapers the details of any political contributions they have made in the last fiscal year. Davis also called on General Electric and Ford to affirm their "political nonpartisanship...
...House Divided? Prodded by O'Neill, Rodino has shown an increasing sensitivity about maintaining not only a nonpartisan approach but also the appearance of nonpartisanship. Last October, Rodino made the mistake of proposing that only he have the right to subpoena materials. When the committee voted on the motion, the Democrats predictably won by a straight party vote, 21 to 17. The Republicans then charged, not without some reason, that it appeared the Democrats were out to get the President by collecting only anti-Nixon evidence...
Your conduct of the Watergate case was nothing short of masterful. Although you said early in that trial that you 'happened to be a Republican,' I am sure that you meant that you vote Republican. The Watergate case is the epitome of judicial nonpartisanship and a shining reflection of the fact that when you don your robe, you are neither a Republican nor a Democrat but simply a federal judge in search of the truth, no matter where it lies. I can only hope that if I am ever called upon to sit in a political case involving...
There's been a minimum display of partisan feeling by the committee members." One reason for the nonpartisanship is that Ervin has worked closely with Howard Baker, the ranking Republican and vice chairman. From the beginning, every vote of the committee has been unanimous, except when Connecticut's Lowell Weicker voted against postponing the hearings during the week Leonid Brezhnev was visiting Richard Nixon...