By this week it was clear to every Congressman, as it must have been to Harry Truman, that the majority of U.S. Senators did not much care what the President wanted. The Senate had served ample notice, in a new and thoroughly emasculated price control bill, of its almost contemptuous disregard of his efforts to align the U.S. people against its position. The break between the President and Congress was just about complete.
This week Harry Truman's Administration leaders faint-heartedly scurried into maneuvers in the House to save what they might of the second OPA bill. It had been shredded of many...
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