NOTES
197
further extensions of New Dealish
programs. When the house killed the presidential
advisory group by refusing to
appropriate to it any operating funds, the senate de-
cided that it had to perform the
functions of the defunct body. For a discussion of this
episode in relation to housing
legislation, see Davies, "Truman Housing Program,"
43-48.
19. Press release of statement made in
subcommittee session on January 15, 1945.
Robert F. Wagner Papers, Georgetown
University, Washington, D. C. See also, Hear-
ings Before the Subcommittee on
Housing and Urban Redevelopment, 1671.
20. Congressional Record, 79
cong., 1 sess., 8248-8249; Report to the Special Com-
mittee on Postwar Economic Policy and
Planning by the Subcommittee on Housing
and Urban Redevelopment (United States Printing Office, Washington, D. C.,
August
1, 1945).
21. Congressional Record, 79
cong., 1 sess., 10642-10653.
22. Message on Reconversion, September
6, 1945. Harry S. Truman Papers, Harry
S. Truman Library, Independence,
Missouri.
23. "Taft as a 'Liberal,'" New
Republic, CXIV (1946), 751.
24. "Candor on the Right," The
Nation, CLXV (1947), 299-300.
25. "It Is Socialism, Mr.
Taft," Headlines, September 29, 1947.
26. "Republican New Deal," Headlines,
March 12, 1947.
27. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.,
"His Eyes Have Seen the Glory," Colliers, Febru-
ary 22, 1947, pp. 13, 34-35.
28. Congressional Record, 79
cong., 2 sess., 3701.
29. Davies, "Truman Housing
Program," 91-96.
30. The nominal Republican majority
leader was Wallace White of Maine, but in
practice Taft filled that post from his
position as chairman of the Republican policy
committee.
31. New York Times, January 21,
March 19, May 19, May 27, June 26, 1947; Con-
gressional Record, 80 cong., 1 sess., 10187.
32. Truman used the refusal of the
Republican eightieth congress to enact the T-E-W
bill to support his contention that it
was a "do-nothing" congress. By a series of ma-
neuvers he developed housing into a
crucial issue of the election. For a discussion of
this, see Davies, "Truman Housing
Program," 147-203.
33. Congressional Record, 80
cong., 2 sess., 4738.
34. New York Times, June 11, 16,
17, 1948.
35. Ralph E. Flanders, Senator from
Vermont (Boston, 1961), 221.
36. New York Times, June 27,
1948.
37. Ibid., July 28, 1948.
38. Ibid., July 29, 1948.
39. Ibid., August 6, 1948; Congressional
Record, 80 cong., 2 sess., 9869-9870.
40. Congressional Record, 80
cong., 2 sess., 9926.
41. Ibid., 9931.
42. Statement on the Signing of the
Housing Bill of 1948, August 10, 1948. Truman
Papers, Truman Library.
43. Truman frequently used variations on
this theme during his 354-speech cam-
paign. See, for example, the speech
given at New Haven, Connecticut, October 28, 1948.
Records of the White House Recorder,
Truman Papers, Truman Library.
44. October 11, 1948. Election Files,
Charles S. Murphy Files, Truman Library.
45. New York Times, July 16,
1949.
46. William F. Zornow, America at
Mid-Century: A Chronicle of Yesterday (Cleve-
land, 1959), 115, places the housing
legislation in the perspective of the period. See
also Louis Koenig, "Truman's Global
Leadership," Current History, XXXIX (1960),
225-229.
47. Taft to Truman, July 14, 1949. Taft
Folder, Truman Papers.
48. For example, see the speech by
Robert F. Wagner to the National Public Hous-
ing Conference, March 15, 1946, quoted
in the New York Times, March 16, 1946.
49. White, The Taft Story, 52;
"A Great Conservative Dies," Life, August 10, 1953,
pp. 39-42.
OHIO'S CONFEDERATE
GENERALS
1. The French observer remarked that
"in the United States a man builds a house
in which to spend his old age, and he
sells it before the roof is on; . . . he settles in a
place, which he soon afterwards leaves
to carry his changeable belongings elsewhere."
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in
America (New York, 1840), II, 144-145.
2. Statistics cited in R. S. Cotterill, The
Old South (Glendale, Calif., 1936), 264.
3. Ibid., 166.