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...most distracting sounds were the bugles from the direction the parade was supposed to come from. On Capitol Hill, the G.O.P. 83rd Congress organized like a disciplined advance guard, in amazing harmony. From a hotel suite in Manhattan, Citizen Eisenhower was making decisions which would ultimately chart the course for Washington and the nation...
...Taft quickly shut off the only threat of an opening-day battle. Nineteen Senators, including four Republicans, had joined in an attempt to adopt an effective anti-filibuster rule. But neither Taft nor any other G.O.P. leader wanted to open the Republican 83rd Congress with a fight. On Taft's motion, the argument was put off until this week, with little chance that the 19, whose chief aim is to prevent Southerners from filibustering civil rights legislation to death, will get anywhere...
This harmonious prelude of the 83rd by no means meant that it would always be thus. There was a live, brilliantly cravatted reminder of one big problem the Republican leadership faces. Playing to the galleries, as usual, Wayne Morse, the Oregon maverick, strolled into the chamber lugging an iron folding chair, prepared to "sit in the middle of the aisle." The Republicans shooed him over to his old seat in the front row on their side, just because that was the simplest thing to do. Not so simple would be the Morse-born problem of maintaining a Republican majority...
None & Nine. The 83rd will be the first Republican Congress in 24 years to organize under a G.O.P. President. None of the 48 Republicans in the Senate and only nine- of the 221 in the House have ever served under a President from their own party. In this unaccustomed role, the Republicans of the 83rd will not arrive in Washington bursting with self-starting initiative. They will be waiting to fall in behind the new President. After Jan. 20, he is expected to go before Congress personally to present his program. Among the major problems Congress will have to buckle...
Skeleton Inspection. Like a new tenant peering in all the closets, the 83rd Congress can be expected to make a careful inspection of the skeletons left behind by the Truman Administration. Investigating committees will continue to dig at Communism and corruption in Government. Conduct of the Korean war (including the ammunition shortage) and administration of the supersecret Central Intelligence Agency are other likely prospects for probing. More than one committee will be anxious to get a look at the administrative records Harry Truman has kept out of the range of congressional eyes...