Word: bipartisanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They are likely to be much more successful in the future than they have been so far. It is fair to expect new efforts at bipartisanship and more consultation with the Senate Committee, no matter whether a weakened Dulles remains or a new and less experienced man replaces him. Many observers feel conditions now are ripe for a return to the type of collaboration between Congress and the executive branch that flourished when Senator Vandenberg was involved in the planning and presentation of Democratic policies on Europe. The retirement of Secretary Dulles may well aid this process, since much...
...already have two Germanys-Khrushchev would give us three," and sent a message to West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt: "I, as well as the other members of the American Government, wish to assure you in these difficult times of undiminished American support." As if to underscore U.S. bipartisanship in Berlin, a U.S. congressional delegation of one Republican, three Democrats, toured both halves of Berlin, after which Ohio's Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays summed up: "The one thing the Communists respect is force. We must take a strong position and not retreat...
Connecticut: In a record-busting burst of bipartisanship, voters handed Incumbent Abraham Ribicoff, 48, the biggest plurality for a Democrat in state history -and his second term...
...remains the most unnerving aspect of the whole episode, however, are the assumptions on which all parties to the controversy finally agreed. Harry Truman, for all his hell-raising, also declared himself opposed to "partisan attacks in the field of international relations." And Adlai Stevenson hymned the virtues of bipartisanship. It was felt, on all sides, that beyond certain limits criticism can become "radical," "partisan," and "un-American...
...partisanship" or fundamental criticism. Quite to the contrary. Indeed it is only the capacity to encourage such thoroughgoing judgement and analysis--and to grow from it--that justifies all other risks and claims for support, at home or abroad. Far from being obliged to cultivate the gentle art of "bipartisanship" among her citizens, America needs nothing more desperately than to resurrect the grand tradition of prophetic outrage and Socratic treason...