Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Both religion and democracy are downgraded when religion is used as a weapon of partisan political warfare...
...came to zero: no housing bill, no aid-to-education bill, modest minimum-wage and medical-care bills quite unlike those he had advocated, no sign whatever of the farm bill he promised at the Los Angeles convention. Said President Eisenhower at his press conference, keeping up his effective partisan needling of recent weeks: "The Democrats have a 2-to-1 majority in the Congress, in both houses. And I don't see how they could want more...
...first political excursion into the South since his nomination, Jack Kennedy covered exactly six miles. Over the Potomac and into the Washington bedroom community of Alexandria he drove with Vice Presidential Nominee Lyndon Johnson to draw the sharpest bead yet on Vice President Nixon. A partisan audience of 15,000, overflowing the George Washington High School stadium, roared with every shot...
...Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, clearly Dick Nixon's idea of a political albatross, stubbornly refused to go away. In Salt Lake City, Benson-once a Rockefeller partisan-said he was strongly for Nixon as "the candidate who will be best for America." Talk of Nixon repudiating him, said Benson, was "crazy...
ALONG with all of its politicking, is Congress going to do any real lawmaking? Nowhere near as much as the partisan demands might indicate. The Republicans are trying to embarrass the Democrats on civil rights, but expect no new legislation to be passed. The Democrats accuse the Administration of neglecting national defense, but are not planning any major increases in defense appropriations. The Democrats are set to ignore several of the measures that the President called for in his message to Congress, including a new farm bill, increases in postal rates, authorization of 40 new federal judgeships, liberalization of immigration...