Word: partisanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving through Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Arizona, Johnson showed an uncanny understanding of his audiences. At a Drake University student Democratic club rally, he sensed the let-out partisanship of his listeners, proceeded to wow them with a wry reference to the Nixon-Rockefeller contest: "The Republicans apparently believe that two's a crowd. They'll give us a choice of a vote for Checkers or a vote for a checkbook." But before a serious, nonpartisan service club luncheon in Des Moines, he picked a careful, solemn path. "I live by the rule that I am first...
Rocky's problem of staking out issues, without appearing to be at odds with the Eisenhower Administration, began to show itself in Chicago. Implicit in his invocation of "a spirit that rises above the cliches and controversies of crude partisanship" was his reach for a position that might reveal him as a friend to Democrats as well as Republicans. For his pains the Chicago Tribune called him a "crypto-New Dealer," warned that his economic and social philosophy is "far closer to 'liberal' Democratic than to traditionally Republican doctrine." Less harsh, yet frankly skeptical, was the judgment...
...more meaningful. Indiana's Freshman Vance Hartke (an avowed political enemy of fellow Hoosier Butler, who opposed Hartke's nomination last year) fairly wooed the muse: "His hand has been firm on the tiller, insisting that the ship of state not founder on the rocks of partisanship. No one who has sat in this chamber could question for a moment the man most responsible for this state of the nation. He is Lyndon B. Johnson." Other Democrats of every persuasion fell in line to praise Johnson and his program. Among them: Alaska's Bob Bartlett, Florida...
...ANGELES TIMES: Petty malice has triumphed. Partisanship in the Senate has not descended to such meanness in our generation...
Morse accused her of "instability" and of many other things, culminating in "sinister subversion." Her nomination was a "horrendous mistake," and to send her to Rio would be "utter folly." He charged her with "extreme partisanship" as Ambassador to Italy. He attacked her "relationship to TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE," declaimed about the "intertwining of Luce policy and Eisenhower policy in conducting the vital affairs of the U.S." Morse even suggested that a TIME story quoting an anonymous U.S. official's rueful jest about dividing up Bolivia-a quote in TIME'S Latin American edition that was used...