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He made one point with which Arthur Vandenberg would agree: "Republicans were hardly called in on important new proposals like the Greek loan and the Marshall plan until the policy itself had been formulated. . . . They were merely asked to go along."

The American Method. Finally, Bob Taft let go point-blank at Harry Truman. Republican Congressmen, faced with "clearing away the wreckage . . . of the New Deal," had met their problems with courage and directness. But in every crisis the President "has shown that he is still dominated by the principles of the C.I.O." Harry Truman "clearly believes in the New Deal doctrine of spending, spending, spending. . . . He believes in taxing, taxing, taxing. . . . He insists upon a health plan which will socialize our entire medical profession. . . . He has appointed to office those who believe in control by Government. He has violently opposed every effort to bring about labor reform."

Concluded Taft: "If the people want a definite end to overgrown bureaucracy, overgrown spending, overgrown taxing, and overgrown regulation of everybody—all abuses of the New Deal; if they wish a return to the common-sense American method of handling our problems of regulation and social welfare, and our foreign policy, within the principles of American government, they can only reach that end by electing a Republican President in 1948—and they will do so."