Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pointing to the international record of the Vandenburg-led Republicans in the 80th Congress, Bundy said, "Anything Van could do, Ike can do better." He claimed that an opposition party, frustrated and long out of power, tends to lose irresponsibility and act constructively once it regains power...
...first is the record of the 80th congress. He pointed out that this is the congress which launched the Marshall plan, and the Greek-Turkish aid program and laid the groundwork for NATO...
...Truman, whom Ike referred to as an "expert in political demagoguery," had conducted the people "through an underworld of imaginary devils," charging that the Republicans wanted to wreck development of natural resources, irrigation and power projects. Nonsense, said Eisenhower. Many of these projects had been started by the Republican 80th Congress, which Truman calls the "worst." The Republicans, said Ike, want to safeguard a measure of local control over the projects instead of surrendering all to "whole-hog Federal Government...
...here today better go over and take another look at this dam, because if the Republicans win this election it will be a long time before you see another structure of this kind." This statement brought forth from the "Truth Squad" the assertion that the Republican-controlled 80th Congress had appropriated more money for Hungry Horse than had the Democratic-controlled 79th Congress. Replied Eisenhower: "Anyone who thinks I am not interested in flood control and all the reclamation projects that we have in sight ... is just talking through...
...hostile Congress almost managed to impeach President Johnson, and years later Harry Truman in a burst of indignation branded for history "that good for nothing, do nothing 80th Congress." In many less obvious cases, a Congress controlled by an opposition party has slowed, temporarily stymied, or completely stopped a President's policies and the program on which the voters elected...