Word: partisanship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...address was very much of a piece with the more thoughtful of his campaign speeches. It was hopeful without being euphoric, avoided partisanship...
...nation as a whole had not yet heard it. It was a mixture of carefully balanced political calculations and genuine personal warmth. It was, by any reasonable standard, corny, but it also was one of Nixon's most effective speeches in years. Gone was the excessive partisanship and professional anti-Communism of his early days. The nation wants a high-roader after Lyndon Johnson. The republic has survived subversion. The cold war is passé. Viet Nam is something to be settled, not won. So Nixon told them what they wanted to hear. "Tonight I do not promise the millennium...
...relations with the President, even his friends were dismayed by the extent to which Justice Fortas had dou bled as White House adviser. Nor was Fortas' case helped by comments from Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who said that the Justice's critics were motivated by "political partisanship and, in some cases, opposition to civil rights advances." Others claimed, with less reason, that anti-Semitism was involved in the opposition to Fortas...
Implacable as a Tank. "I've always believed in issues rather than partisanship," he says. But the issues he espoused-a blend of mild liberalisms-have long since been appropriated by candidates who sometimes win. "It's been a lifetime commitment to do everything I could to secure peace," he says, emphasizing his role as a U.S. delegate to the 1945 San Francisco conference that forged the United Nations, and as Ike's Mutual Security Administrator and chief disarmament adviser. Even as he recalls such distinguished assignments, he unconsciously reminds his audiences that his day is past...
...national unity. "However strong, however prosperous, however just its purposes or noble its cause," he told a dinner of Cook County Democrats, "no nation can long endure when citizen is turned against citizen, cause against cause, section against section, generation against generation by the mean and selfish spirit of partisanship...