1946 United States elections

'Had enough? Vote Republican,' ran the slogan, and after a year of strikes and meat shortages voters had. Harry Truman, president since Franklin Roosevelt's death the year before, saw his Democrats lose 55 House seats and both chambers, giving Republicans Congress for the first time since the early 1930s. A fellow Democrat, Senator J. William Fulbright, even suggested Truman appoint a Republican Secretary of State and resign so that Republican could take over. Truman stayed. The new Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, which curbed union power, over his veto, and in 1948 he ran against the 'Do-Nothing Congress' and won.