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...voters were dissatisfied with anything, said New Jersey's Republican Senator Alexander Smith, also a stout internationalist, they were "dissatisfied with the one-sided conduct of foreign affairs." It was the Republican 80th Congress-"the no-good, do-nothing Congress," Harry Truman called it-which had passed the Truman Doctrine (Greek and Turkish aid), the Marshall Plan and the Vandenberg Resolution, which inspired the North Atlantic Treaty...
Unlike the Republican 80th Congress, the Democrats would organize the 82nd. The Republicans would wield a balance of power without having to answer directly for what Congress did. They had not planned it that way, but they were mightily pleased that it was to be that...
...Harry Truman the issues of the 1950 election were clear. For all that was bad, the voters could blame the Republicans and the "no-good, do-nothing 80th Congress." For all that was good-the "smashing victory" in Korea, the prosperity of farmers, labor and businessmen-the voters could thank the Democratic Party and its boss. Any farmer, especially, who did not appreciate the Democrats should have his head examined-"and will have his head examined," he declared...
More serious were Rhee's troubles with the National Assembly. When the Assembly refused to appropriate funds for some of Rhee's government projects, the President lambasted them with a vigor that outdid Truman's gibes at the 80th Congress. Then Rhee unconstitutionally appropriated the funds by executive order. "Why should there be anything between a President and his people," he trumpeted. Occasionally during a conference with rebellious assemblymen, rising anger would drive Rhee out of the presidential mansion to a handy woodpile. Only after he had chopped the woodpile down to size would Rhee come back...
...80th Congress Senator Chan Gurney (R.S.D.) introduced legislation to permit federal employees to take leave of absence for research and study with the government paying for their tuition...