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...Democratic Party's 1948 platform. The results were awesome: the Dixiecrats walked out of the convention, the party split, and that was as far as civil rights ever got. Southern Democrats in the Sist Congress threatened to filibuster civil rights to death, and had their way. The 82nd Congress is now six months old and the Administration has so far made no effort to revive the issue. Last week Senator Humphrey, seeing that no one else was making a move, dropped into the legislative hopper the eight bills (including FEPC) which had touched off the 1948 uproar...
...fiscal year last week, the 82nd Congress had not passed a single regular appropriation. There had been fundless days before, when one or another department failed to get its moneys voted. This time Congress had failed to provide a single dime for any part of the U.S. Government after July 1. In a last-minute spasm-after jamming through the controls extension (see above)-with characteristic confusion, wild errors and panicky haste, Congress jammed through a 31-day authorization to continue spending. It will be three weeks before the $8.5 billion foreign military aid bill even gets...
...record so far, the 82nd qualified as one of the worst in history. No other Congress, not even the Republican 80th, which Harry Truman called the worst, was ever so far behind in its work...
...hands, only putting his head down and beginning to pump when he saw some political advantage. He had given his supporters in Congress almost no help. More than once he had left them in the lurch. But to lay it all on Harry Truman was to overlook the 82nd's own wobblings, digressions and busyness with grubby politics...
...82nd was politically atomized-only nominally Democratic. The House breaks down like this: 115 Southern Democrats, 120 Fair Deal Democrats, 165 regular Republicans, 35 lonely liberal Republicans. The best organized factions, the Southern Democrats and regular Republicans, could unite and did on one negative course: bilking Harry Truman. Republican motives were obvious. Southern Democrats were still going around with old Truman spears sticking out of their hides. Some of the bitterest denunciations of the President came in Dixie accents. Almost every day a new dirty Truman story guffawed out of Democratic cloakrooms...