Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clair did manage, however, to provoke a partisan split within the committee. He argued that he must be allowed to be present and to cross-examine any witnesses whom the committee calls as it attempts to determine what charges, if any, to lodge against the President. Disputing St. Clair's argument, Rodino contended that his committee's investigation is not a trial or an adversary proceeding; it is akin to a fact-finding grand jury probe in which potential defendants are not represented by counsel because no one has yet been charged. Yet Republicans on the committee...
...threat of partisan division in the impeachment inquiry remained one of Nixon's best hopes for stalling an adverse committee decision. Certainly, his public relations drive was increasingly irrelevant. As Republican Senator John Tower of Texas observed: "I suppose it humanizes him a little in the public's mind when he walks into a diner and chats with a black waitress. But his problem is in Washington now. Hell, he ain't running for county sheriff...
...President from office. This is being done through a public relations campaign designed to highlight the President's achievements in office and the sanctity of the presidency itself. At the same time the effort seeks to obfuscate and obscure Nixon's own Watergate role and portray impeachment as a partisan movement spearheaded by political enemies. At a minimum, the aim is to build enough pressure on normally friendly Senators to prevent conviction on any House-approved impeachment charge...
...another big advantage in its encounter this weekend--that is the home court edge. Now Greensboro, the site of the tournament, is not technically State's home court, but it is only a half hour down the road from Raleigh and believe me, that is going to be as partisan a crowd as any you can imagine...
...majority against the government. All parties are well aware, though, that the voters are in no mood for another election and might lash out at the party that prompted one. Heath himself, before taking up his seat on the opposition bench, called on Britons "to set aside partisan differences." Privately, he attributed his defeat in part to the fact that the electorate was fed up with slanging-match politics...