Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...method was unusual in an administration long used to government by executive agencies. He announced that he had harnessed his Cabinet members and other top administrators to the job of pushing and pulling balky Congressmen toward the legislation he wants. To each of his executive family the President had assigned the responsibility for specific parts of his program. To each (except Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, Attorney General Tom Clark and Postmaster General Robert Hannegan) the President had sent a letter outlining the legislation for which he would be held accountable in researching and drafting bills, presenting testimony to committees, promoting...
With no postwar directive from Congress, but pushed by individual Congressmen and public demand ("Get the boys home and out of the service"), the War Department was turning out thousands of able, war-trained officers and noncoms who might have stayed to backbone the peacetime army if permanent rank and other inducements had been offered to them. The Army had already discharged more than 1,000,000 men and would soon be tearing itself down at the rate of 1,000,000 a month. Draft and recruiting supplied replacements at the rate of about 86,000 a month...
...Some Congressmen at first were inclined to mistrust the May bill's sweeping delegation of powers to a nine-man, part-time board. Its members would be paid $50 a day (when working) to make decisions bearing with appalling directness on the survival of civilization...
...Congressmen, in the main, were resentful of tough talk from the White House. But Harry Truman had found that he could not count on friendships and personal popularity on the Hill. Many wise Washingtonians thought that the President had worked himself into a position from which strong assertion of leadership would now be more difficult than it would have been at his Administration's beginning. In many a score book this was the one big error of Harry Truman's half year, and meant more trouble ahead...
...House had three weeks in which to argue the bill. There would probably be a lot of horsetrading there and in the Senate. But an accomplished tax cut would be dear to the hearts of Congressmen facing elections in November. Perhaps in less than a month U.S. citizens could figure exactly how much lower their 1946 taxes would...