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Show THIS 17 Eg : orl JJ He amajsed h tela', c! almost 32 million votes, more than 10 million more than the average Republican vote in the last four elections. His party at the state level! ran far behind him. Some Republican senators sena-tors and congressmen were eUcted only because of the tremendous Elsenhower Els-enhower vote. Other Republicans could not even win on his coat tails witness Kem of Missouri, Cain of Washington, Eckton of Montana, Mon-tana, Lodge of Massachusetts. Others squeaked through as evidenced evi-denced by the almost tie set-up of the Senate and the bare majority in the House. So Democrats can take some heart out of the election, and Republicans rannot crow too loudly, for it was a personal victory for the popular national hero. s What will happen -in the next Congress is difficult to determine. Most likely, it will be governed by a Republican-southern democratic coalition as it has been in the past decade. With the Senate composed of 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats and one independent (Senator Wayne Morse) the vote of Vice President Richard Nixon and Morse may prove most important on close partisan questions. Certainly the new president will not have a working majority in either house of Congress. If he approaches ap-proaches the Congress on a partisan par-tisan basis, he may have trouble. If he asks for bi-partisan cooperation coopera-tion be likely will get through his program, and he has a reputation By WALTER SHEAO ALL WASHINGTON Is agog In anticipation of one of the most elaborate Inaugural ceremonies in the history of the country In spite of the fact that the President-elect would prefer some more simple rites. Already hotel rooms are a sellout, sell-out, the inaugural committee is canvassing the rooming houses for ,x possible housing for thousands of ' visitors, the steel inaugural platform plat-form on the steps of the capltol building Is complete except for decoration, and the biggest throng in Washington history is expected to view the inaugural ceremonies, plus the million who will see the inauguration of a President for the first time by television. Political observers here are asking ask-ing if the appointment of lame-duck senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts from the liberal element of the Republican party, as bis liason representative with the Truman administration is an indication indi-cation of his future appointments. Appointment of J. M. Dodge, Detroit De-troit banker, an old buddy and financial adviser to Eisenhower in Germany, as personal budget representative rep-resentative also was considered as significant. The meeting between President Truman and Gen. Eisenhower at the White House also set a precedent, prece-dent, and of course was tor the express ex-press purpose of presenting a united front on basic foreign policy for the benefit of the world and the United Nations. m of reconciling opposing opinions. Many political , observers here say that Eisenhower will be a one-term one-term president; that, for this reason, rea-son, he will take the leaders of both parties into his confidence, and that with ' his record Democratic vote in the South, will win many southern Democrats over to his way of thinking. These same observers point out that with one term in mind, he will not play politics as most Presidents are forced to do throughout then flrst term. General Eisenhower, backed by the biggest vote ever given an American president from the ranks of Republicans and Democrats, labor la-bor and management, Catholic and Protestant, rich and poor, north and south will go into office on January 20 probably with less pressure than any other president in history No deals, no strings, no commitments other than the promises prom-ises and pledges he made to the American people |