Word: partisanship
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...keep an essentially unpolitical effort is an odd one. On any other issue, his job as party floor leader is to be the cutting edge of the Democratic program in the House. But he is keenly aware that the validity of the impeachment process would be destroyed by partisanship, by permitting Nixon's charge that it is a Democratic effort to undo the Nixon mandate of 1972 to become true-or even seem to be true. He is determined that the issue of Nixon's guilt or innocence of presidential wrongdoing shall, so far as possible...
...judges?and he took it himself. That was partly because he had a relatively light docket at the time, but also because he felt that if he as a Republican judge handled the matter, and did so fairly and aggressively, no charges could be leveled that partisanship had entered the judicial process...
...White House said Tuesday that Nixon did in fact have such a conversation with Kleindienst, and also said that Cox's leak was proof of his partisanship...
Sargent said that the appointment should be void of partisanship. The governor repeatedly stressed the necessity for the president to nominate a man of respected stature who could "restore confidence" in the political system...
Liberal and black Democrats from the overwhelmingly Democratic suburban Washington, D.C., counties championed Agnew as the ideal candidate; a moderate career public executive who approached elective office with more emphasis on problem solving than on partisanship. Reform-minded Democratic leaders throughout the state told voters over and over throughout the campaign, "Agnew...