Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President said Yes, the Vice-President said No, and the Secretary of State equivocated righteously. "Foreign policy ought to be kept out of partisan debate," declared Dwight Eisenhower last week. He said that he "deplored" the exchange of criticism and reply on official actions; that when he himself is accused he does not expect to answer; and that America's interests will be best served "if we do not indulge in this kind of thing." Richard Nixon called this "an unsound idea" ("one of the reasons the Republican party is in trouble today") and insisted on the opposite policy. John...
What remains the most unnerving aspect of the whole episode, however, are the assumptions on which all parties to the controversy finally agreed. Harry Truman, for all his hell-raising, also declared himself opposed to "partisan attacks in the field of international relations." And Adlai Stevenson hymned the virtues of bipartisanship. It was felt, on all sides, that beyond certain limits criticism can become "radical," "partisan," and "un-American...
During the day the former President held a peppery news conference and delivered a slashing partisan attack on the Republicans at a dinner last night...
...procedure in withdrawing from N.S.A. without consulting interested groups on campus. But as an organizational entity the U.N. Council should not have taken a stand on N.S.A. itself--whatever the personal feelings of its members. In taking such stands it forfeits the right to call itself a "non-partisan political organization." A. M. Colt, Sheldon A. Vincent, Members of the Executive Board, Harvard-Radcliffe U.N. Council...
...weatherman, political forecasters have need for ultrasensitive barometers. Partisan winds can shift suddenly, quickening hopes in one camp, dashing dreams in the other. Poll Taker George Gallup's moistened finger has sensed a freshening Republican breeze that could promise more campaign thunder and lightning than the Democrats had predicted. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Changing Campaign. And nowhere is a worrying Democrat more worried about changing political pressures than in California. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS' cover story, Just Plain...