2009-06-14T13:04:05-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/f01/286533-02-m.jpgThe speakers talked about the relationship between President Truman and Congress. They ...

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And Congress at that time was controlled by the GOP. In accepting the Democratic presidential nomination at 1:45 a.m. in a stifling Philadelphia convention hall, Truman stunned delegates by ...

President Truman today sent to Congress a special message on civil ... the Commission declares that the Federal Government in its relationship to higher education “should recognize the national ...

Peterson introduced the event and then interviewed Graham on Truman’s relationship with Supreme Court Justice ... industry was unconstitutional because it had been authorized by Congress. Jackson ...

After the Democrats’ shellacking at the polls in November, liberal pundits began evoking the Republican Congress that took power after a similar electoral defeat during President Harry Truman ...

Truman said, "the United Nations, the Marshall Plan, NATO, and other projects would have been hampered, if not blocked completely" by the Republican majority in Congress. Truman acknowledged they ...

President Harry Truman called lawmakers of his time the “Do-nothing Congress.” But the Congress of Truman’s time was a whirlwind of activity compared to the current chair-sitters.

After two weeks, the lawmakers adjourned. The GOP strategy presented Truman with a campaign theme: He railed against the “do-nothing 80th Congress.” Truman warned the electorate that a ...