Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...considered, for there is no reflection of them in the President's foreign aid programs. Everybody knows what happened to the Gaither Report; it was locked away for fear, in Herblock's words, that people who read it might "die of happiness." Vice-President Nixon's report, a frankly partisan statement of Republican economic aims, alone managed to survive...
...plate diners had already made it plain in their welcoming ovations that they were enthusiastically pro-Nixon. And on any applause meter, Nixon, who gracefully shelved partisan politics for the evening, came out ahead. But the pattern remained the same. Kennedy looked and talked like a man who knew he was in the 'lead and was willing to take a few irreverent chances...
During the debate, there was controlled laughter, most of it at Nixon's expense. "I know Mr. Khrushchev" drew ripples, but the greatest (and most non-partisan) outburst came when Nixon declared: "America is not standing still, but America can't stand...
...quite abruptly, the anti-government program widened its base to embrace, besides opposition to the treaty, the questions of the "preservation of democracy," the "normalization of parliamentary politics," and, as a concomitant to the anti-Kishi slogans, the movement against Eisenhower's visit. In this sense, a purely partisan, leftist movement was converted into a city-centered mass movement against the allegedly anti-parliamentarian attitude of the Kishi cabinet. The main argument was that the government had refused to deliberate further on the treaty, but had resorted to a direct action, even daring to employ the police within the Diet...
Growth rates are at present a matter of controversy. They should be scientifically determined. The decay rate of radium is well established. At last we can point with pride to the national debt and say it is going down, its half-life pegged, not to the vagaries of partisan politics, but to the immutable laws of nature. The debt ceiling too would be beyond the reach of legislation, limited only by the critical mass of the uranium at Fort Knox...