Word: unpartisan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Took pains to say "how much I have respected and admired the attitude" of Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, "in trying to preserve a true bipartisan, unpartisan approach to all our foreign problems...
Some 30,000 persons crowded Missoula (pop. 24,000) for the doggedly unpartisan presidential dedication of an aerial fire-fighting depot. Places on the platform with Ike were assigned to public officeholders; this excluded many of the state's Republican Party leaders, but would have given a seat to rabidly New Dealing Senator James Murray-who failed to appear (a traffic jam delayed him, his friends said). During a brief talk about natural resources, however, the President did slip in a plug for the G.O.P. senatorial candidate. Representative Wesley D'Ewart, whom Ike described as "my good friend...
...overriding need is to clearly understand the victories we have won in this cold war and how we won them," he wrote. Those victories, he went on, had been fashioned by almost-forgotten bipartisan cooperation. EGA itself was "launched as an unpartisan enterprise," established by a Republican Congress working with a Democratic executive. "This working unity typified our finest traditions and our greatest safety in the presence of external hazards to all Americans, regardless of party...