Word: 83rd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. Chairman: ex-President Herbert Hoover, 77. Sworn in last week, the twelve-member commission is charged, by act of the 83rd Congress, with studying "the present organization and methods of operation of [the executive branch] to determine what changes would contribute to economy, efficiency and improved service in the transaction of the public business...
...fill-in on recent Democratic developments from National Committee Chairman Steve Mitchell, and made a pair of well-publicized phone calls to tell Senate Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn that he was "mighty proud" of the party's record in the 83rd Congress. (One of his first acts on arriving in New York had been to call up Harry Truman in Independence. ) Mostly Adlai planned to spend his time resting, until Sept. 14-15, when Democratic bigwigs will officially welcome him home at a nationally televised rally in Chicago...
Holding up their partisan yardstick, the Democrats measured off the record of the 83rd Congress last week and ruled it a Republican fiasco. In a radio report to the nation last week, Dwight Eisenhower measured the 83rd's first session against the broad aims and purposes of his Administration and ruled it a good beginning -"I repeat-only a little more than a beginning...
Waiting for Policy. Still another characteristic of the first session of the 83rd was the fact that, as in most postwar Congresses, the spotlight of world news was elsewhere-on Moscow, Seoul and Panmunjom. This was partly the luck of the news. (Congress could hardly compete with Stalin's death, Beria's arrest, Rhee's stubborn stand, or the Korean truce.) But partly it was due to the fact that the initiative in world politics is still not in the hands of the U.S. The first great steps in getting it there are not up to Congress...
...whole, this worked. From the first session of the 83rd, Ike got nearly everything he asked for. His greatest tactical victory was extension of the excess-profits tax, despite the opposition of Ways & Means Chairman Dan Reed. Ike's worst defeat was rejection of his eleventh-hour request for an increase in the U.S. debt limit. Significantly, the tactics of the debt-limit fight (see below) did not allow Ike to apply this one-by-one technique...