Word: partisanship
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Johnson cherishes a hope that the summit blowup greatly added to the political appeal of the image he has tried to create: experienced, responsible, free of zealous partisanship, the candidate of national unity. On a foray into the Northwest last week, he refused to make a formal declaration of his candidacy. Duty forbade, he explained: as an avowed candidate he would have to neglect his Senate duties. But at a political session in an Idaho Falls hotel, he leveled with an anxious admirer. "We don't want to bet on a horse that's going to stay...
President Eisenhower's view of what he wanted most to be remembered for in office changed subtly in his 7½ years as President. He ended the Korean war; he prided himself in taking some of the acrimony of partisanship out of the U.S.atmosphere; and fiscal economy was always in his mind. But increasingly, Ike envisioned himself as engaged in one overriding personal mission, to bring a "just and lasting peace." He ran for reelection, he told friends, because "I want to advance our chances for world peace, if only by a little, maybe only a few feet...
...then so happily rediscovered. We wanted to interpret the form of the Church's doctrine, its worship, its juridical order as 'human, all too human,' as 'not so important . . .' In all this we at least approached the theory and practice of a spiritual partisanship and an esoteric gnosticism...
Despite Paine's example, capital journalism languished until another immigrant, Scottish-born James Gordon Bennett, arrived on the Washington scene in 1827. As special correspondent for the New York Enquirer, he quizzed administrative leaders, exposed corruption, and went to capital balls. Because of his partisanship to Andrew Jackson, he was fed the first official "leaks." He also became the first professional newsman to interview a President. "I went up to His Excellency," wrote Bennett after an audience with Martin Van Buren in 1839. "He held out his hand. It was soft and oily...
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...