Word: bipartisanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President has shown his duplicity by trying to make his policy seem bipartisan. This tactic of obtaining the cooperation of the opposition should not be used as a political trick. Rather bipartisanship, in its noble sense, aims to bring a viable policy from conception into reality...
Nixon, campaigning in New England, kept his cool. He remarked that the President had been guilty of a "shocking display of temper" and that his attack had "broken the bipartisan line on Viet Nam policy." Bipartisanship, he went on, meant joint participation and responsibility, "not abject approval of whatever policy the President may announce...
...last election: of 276 COPE-backed candidates elected to Congress, only 17 were Republicans. Labor's political experts are paying particular attention to the reelection of 51 Democratic freshmen, most of them from swing districts that were won in the L.B.J. landslide. To preserve some aura of bipartisanship, COPE is expected to bestow its benediction on three old Republican Senate friends: New Jersey's Clifford Case, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper...
...year to Lodge's desire to return to the U.S. and try to head off Barry Goldwater for the Republican presidential nomination. Johnson and Lodge are old Capitol Hill colleagues and they speak the same language, although with different accents. As a Republican, Lodge lends an aura of bipartisanship to the U.S.'s Viet Nam policy at a time when G.O.P. criticism of that policy is rising. During his previous Saigon stint, Lodge earned the respect, if not the affection, of South Viet Nam's feuding political and religious factions...
Happy Birthday. The week's last party was for some 1,300 House and Senate staffers, and when Johnson emerged to greet them, he had in tow Henry Cabot Lodge, who had been called in to consult with the President about Viet Nam. Johnson praised the bipartisanship of congressional leaders and men like Lodge ("He's here for just one reason, and it isn't because he opposed me for the vice-presidency in 1960"), and reported that the 75 bills, 300 reports and 200 messages that he had sent to Congress since Jan. 4 had been...