Word: partisanship
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...Viet Nam policy was not the work of any lobby. It has not been deeply influenced by Republican or Democratic partisanship and certainly has not been a vehicle for individual career ism. It has been quite "pure" executive policy, conceived and carried out by honorable and able men; indeed, some very brilliant men have had a hand in it. Yet in many respects it has been badly bungled under three Presidents of two parties...
...effort to remake his image as an earnest moderator between the levels of government, Agnew will appear later in the year at a series of state and local conferences around the nation -while generally avoiding the kind of party fund-raising events that might bring forth his old sulfurous partisanship. He will also try to work closely with the nation's Governors and, unlikely as it may sound, court ethnic groups, including blacks. Such liaison was supposed to be an Agnew assignment all along...
...Georgia last week, where the President encountered Governor Lester Maddox, greeted black schoolchildren and pressed the flesh in behalf of Hal Suit, the Republican candidate for Governor, Nixon repeatedly paid tribute to backers of his plan in both parties. "It was a bipartisan speech," he proclaimed. "There was no partisanship in it. When people are working for peace, there are no politics in it." The Senate quickly and unanimously voted a resolution of support. Even though a lone irate Republican in Congress telephoned Henry Kissinger to complain that Nixon should have saved the speech until after the World Series...
...have "forfeited their mandate" to represent the workingman. Nixon issued a 20-page "call for cooperation" from the Congress, gently chiding the Hill for its failure to act on his programs. The watchword of his Administration, he insisted, was still "reform." "In a mood of nostalgia and partisanship," he said, "Congress has too much devoted its energies to tinkering with programs of the past while ignoring the realities of the present. What is at stake is the good repute of American Government at a time when the charge that our system cannot work is hurled with fury and anger...
Thomas McMahon's first novel, though, is the total absence of any predictable generation-gap bitterness. The loss of innocence and joy he mourns is both too profound and too vulnerably human for partisanship...