The "worst Congress" churned determinedly toward adjournment. Harry Truman to the contrary, the 80th, far from being the worst, had clearly won an honorable spot in U.S. legislative history.
In foreign policy its record was distinguished: its decisions marked the end of 152 years of U.S. peacetime isolation. Though the Administration, using its constitutional prerogative, initiated policy, the Both Congress, led by Senator Arthur Vandenberg, forged the imposing tools by which the bipartisan foreign policy was put into effect.
It approved aid to Greece and Turkey, authorized ECA by overwhelming majorities....
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