Word: bipartisanship
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...week began with a minor uproar. Central figure: Texas' Tom Connally snorting at Republican critics of Administration foreign policy. "All this talk about 'bipartisanship' and 'You've got to consult the Republicans'-to hell with all that! It's got to be an American policy." The words of the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee were still echoing around Capitol Hill when the Korean news...
...obvious answer came in an indignant chorus from Republicans: yes. And it came not only from those whom Acheson was trying to isolate as "isolationists." Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, a supporter of bipartisanship in foreign affairs, declared: "There is going to be a re-examination of foreign policy by Congress. That is simply one of the facts of life, and the Secretary of State had better take cognizance...
...that was good in U.S. foreign policy (e.g., U.N., the Marshall Plan), the Republicans had joined in genuine bipartisanship, said the statement. In all that was bad, the Republicans had not been consulted. The Administration, they said, had given the Kremlin a "green light to grab whatever it could in China, Korea and Formosa...
Dean Acheson's invitation to Bridges was more than a gesture toward restoring bipartisanship in the nation's foreign policy. Country by country, Acheson ticked off to Bridges some of the danger spots in the cold war-Korea, Berlin, Burma. The most dangerous of all, said Dean Acheson, was Berlin...
Dulles' name had been proposed for the job by Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg, the Republicans' chief architect of bipartisanship in foreign policy, and his selection was hailed by Vandenberg's hardy little group of Republicans in the Senate. But there were other Republicans who were not so happy at the idea. Bipartisanship, snapped Ohio's Robert Taft, "is not accomplished by the appointment of an individual Republican . . . Bipartisanship is being used by Mr. Truman as a slogan to condemn any Republican who disagrees with Mr. Truman's unilateral foreign policy, secretly initiated...