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With the world watching them, half a thousand U.S. citizens took their seats last week on Capitol Hill. They were the puzzled, troubled and individualistic members of the 82nd Congress. In a hushed Senate chamber, Chaplain Frederick Brown Harris concluded: "May there ascend from every member . . . the solemn prayer: 'So help...
...hush did not last long. The 82nd had come in on the heels of the turbulent 81st, which had quit only the day before. In a final burst of legislative speed, the 81st had passed the $20 billion supplementary military appropriation, the $3.1 billion civilian-defense bill, and the excess-profits tax designed to add $3.3 billion to the Government's revenue. In spending for defense, the 82nd would no doubt continue to follow in the Sist's large footsteps...
...would stop abruptly. The Republican minority was stronger than ever, and flushed with election victory. One of the results of victory was that Senator Joe McCarthy, whose Red charges had helped to knock off a number of Democratic candidates in November, was likely to have more influence in the 82nd Congress than he had had in the 81st. On domestic matters, a conservative coalition of Southern Democrats and Republicans would dominate the show. Such Truman dreamboats as the Brannan Plan, the Ewing Plan, the civil rights bill, would not be launched. On foreign policy, the 82nd would be filled with...
Minutes after the 82nd convened, Ohio's Taft was on his feet attacking the Administration, flourishing the Republicans' notice of impending battle. Dressed in the morning coat and striped trousers which he customarily dons for the swearing-in ceremony, he rose to ask peremptorily why the President wasn't ready with his State of the Union message; two days later, he rose again, flipping the pages of his text, to deliver his foreign-policy speech (see The Nation...
Within a week, the 82nd Congress would convene with an increased representation of Republicans elected in a campaign in which he had been a central issue...