Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eisenhower's job and his title were temporary, but Harry Truman would like to have somebody permanently in the job. The President had once asked Congress to create a single, overall Chief of Staff. Congress, with plenty of urging from the apprehensive Navy, decided it would be too powerful a post for any military...
...year ago the U.S. Congress volleyed and thundered for five months over EGA. Last week it barely managed a show of interest in ECA's $5½ billion bill for the next 15 months. Summoned to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Dean Acheson waited for ten minutes before Chairman Tom Connally showed up, then waited ten minutes more for enough other committeemen to make a quorum. Finally Connally snapped at an attendant: "Go out and see if you can find any more Senators wandering around, and bring them...
...suffering not from a lack, but from an excess of support. Congress was well aware that the commitment had been made. They could only examine the books, and assess its achievements. Was EGA succeeding? The Administration's answer was a triumphant...
President Truman's Fair Deal Program lost more ground than it gained in Congress last week...
...with wit and without rancor. He paid good-natured tribute to Harry Truman as "the most famous one-man tornado in the history of political hurricanes," twitted him for spending "six soap-box months telling the American people how the Republicans had ruined them," then opening his message to Congress with: ". . . the State of the Union is good...