Word: unpartisanship
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...went along with Arthur Vanden-berg's leadership in the Republicans' postwar policy in foreign affairs, Van's so-called "unpartisanship." But Taft had misgivings, which Vandenberg also began to entertain before the end of his career. When the Michigan Senator died of cancer in 1951, Taft began to express himself with vigor on foreign affairs, attacking what he saw as defects and ambiguities in the NATO pact, challenging both the President's right and wisdom in committing large numbers of U.S. troops to Europe, fixing the blame for the Korean attack on the Administration...
...books on his hero). In the years before World War II, his nationalism had led him into isolationism. On that day in January, he stood at a crossroads. The speech in which he announced his change of mind transcended party politics, laid the groundwork for bipartisanship in foreign policy ("unpartisanship" he preferred to call it), and lifted Congressmen up to a new faith. Senator Vandenberg was not the single author of bipartisanship, but he was its acknowledged leader. As such, and as the man who knew precisely what measures would get Senate approval, and as a man who could drive...
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