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How to Get a Better Congress
Rice, Philip Blair | April 8, 1944 issue

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This article focuses on the 1944 presidential elections in the U.S. No matter how good a president the people may choose, he is ineffective unless he has a Congress with which he can work and he may become overweening unless a Congress that supplies a high type of statesman, like criticism, can check him. Recent Congresses have contained some able men and passed measures to avert disaster on the war and home fronts. But the margin has been too close for comfort. The first Lend-Lease Act and with it very likely the fate of our allies and the whole outcome of the war, depended on one vote in the House of Representatives. The present U.S. Congress has disfranchised the greater part of eleven million men and women in uniform.

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