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...Domestic policy: Conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats blocked most Administration proposals. The Republican 80th Congress, castigated by Truman, had a direction in domestic policy; the 82nd had no direction. The Fair Dealers are a minority; the majority, made up of loose-knit groups without common aim or discipline, did not and could not accept responsibility for developing a program. The frustration and division of Congress was such that it made no progress on such measures as the St. Lawrence seaway, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, reapportionment and redistricting of congressional districts...
...should Harry Truman be interested in such Republican matters? The fact is that unpredictable Bill Langer votes with the Administration more than half the time, and has never been paid off for his "big one." The "big one" was the deciding vote Langer cast in committee during the 80th Congress. By voting with the Democrats, Langer blocked all plans for a full-dress investigation of the Kansas City vote frauds, which Republicans had hoped to make a major 1948 election issue...
...record so far, the 82nd qualified as one of the worst in history. No other Congress, not even the Republican 80th, which Harry Truman called the worst, was ever so far behind in its work...
...Swett wound up 80th to complete the list of Harvard finishers...
...Secretary, the West even held the momentary initiative. Acheson presided over the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty creating (on paper) a collective defense system. The idea had not been his; it had originated in a resolution presented by Senator Arthur Vandenberg, approved by a Republican Senate in the 80th Congress by a 64-to-4 vote. But Acheson had earnestly carried it through. He saw the Russians, outsmarted by the allies' great airlift, give up the Berlin blockade...