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If the voters were dissatisfied with anything, said New Jersey's Republican Senator Alexander Smith, also a stout internationalist, they were "dissatisfied with the one-sided conduct of foreign affairs." It was the Republican 80th Congress—"the no-good, do-nothing Congress," Harry Truman called it—which had passed the Truman Doctrine (Greek and Turkish aid), the Marshall Plan and the Vandenberg Resolution, which inspired the North Atlantic Treaty.
Just to make sure that everyone understood these things, Ike Eisenhower spoke up in Dallas, repeating a lesson the U.S. had learned. "Russia knows the U.S. cannot live by itself alone. They know if they can break us away from the rest of the world, we are beaten without a war."