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Swenson also helped choose books for the White House during the terms of presidents from Truman to Nixon...
...campaign. So much that his party got trounced anyway, reversing its long- standing majorities in both houses of Congress. Crowed one Senator who suddenly found himself in the majority: "The United States is now a Republican country." The year was 1946. The President was Harry S Truman...
...Democrats also lost control of both houses of Congress in elections in 1946 -- and Harry Truman went on to defeat Tom Dewey two years later. A caveat: Republicans show no inclination to nominate a presidential candidate with a mustache...
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., adviser and historian of Presidents, notes dryly, "I'm sure everyone in the White House is studying the Truman experience." A few months ago, in fact, it seemed that the entire Administration was reading David McCullough's Pulitzer-winning biography Truman. They are no | doubt reviewing pages 525 through 719, which offer the cautionary tale of the last Democratic President to scare away so many midterm voters that he ended up facing a hostile Congress followed by a fairy-tale sequel for the Democrats: the same President riding that very Congress, which he called "the do-nothing...
...Breezes and the new cellophane-wrapped cigarette packages; of returning soldiers and their wives conceiving the first baby boomers; of the goods and services that grew up around those families, from Levittown to Dr. Spock's baby book to frozen orange juice. But 1946 was a troubled time for Truman. His failed health plan was just a small part of an ambitious attempt to continue Franklin D. Roosevelt's activist domestic agenda. Truman found himself blocked by Roosevelt's nemesis: a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. The economy, although sound, was plagued by a black market and strikes...