Word: nonpartisanship
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...Nixon lean into nonpartisanship that the Republican New York Herald Tribune headlined: NIXON: REPUBLICRAT OR DEMOCAN? Such a style may not sit well with G.O.P. regulars, Nixon conceded, but he is convinced that since the G.O.P. is the minority party, according to party registration, he must gather in a heavy majority of the independent vote if he is to win in November...
...only natural that Khrushchev's tirade against Eisenhower should evoke the hackneyed professions of nonpartisanship and the united front among top Democratic leaders. However, it is both ludicrous and alarming that the only intelligent response at higher levels-that of Adlai Stevenson-gives rise to charges of appeasement...
...bills in Congress, the President summed up, the bill that best measured up to these needs was the Landrum-Griffin bill*-"a good start toward a real labor reform bill." He gave his point extra punch when he stressed his final-term nonpartisanship. "I don't come before you in any partisan sense-I am not a candidate for office." And he carefully stopped just short of the Write-Your-Congressman-Now appeal that would have weakened that impartiality. "It is my earnest hope," he said, "that Congress will be fully responsive to an overwhelming national demand. Thank...
Crossroads Campaign. At World War II's end, Dulles moved to the peacemaking level. Cordell Hull, President Roosevelt's Secretary of State, consulted him on "nonpartisanship." Roosevelt sent him as an adviser to the founding conference of the U.N. at San Francisco, where he and Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg worked successfully to get the word "justice" ranked with "peace" in the U.N. Charter. In the next five years President Truman sent him to nine more conferences, from London to Moscow to Japan; Dulles threw his influence behind the Marshall Plan and NATO, drafted and negotiated...
...Democratic attempt at freezing high farm supports at their present level. Those vetoes told the Congress, which had long since come to the point of discounting presidential influence, that Ike means business. For the first time G.O.P. congressional leaders are able to count on partisan coordination-instead of benign nonpartisanship-from the White House. Says Republican Whip Les Arends of Illinois: "Those veto actions firmed things up as far as we Republicans are concerned...