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President Cleveland vetoed (often by the "pocket" method???letting bills go when Congress was about to adjourn*) 304 bills, mostly Civil War pensions. Historian James Bryce commented: "By killing more bills than all his predecessors put together had done, Mr. Cleveland is supposed to have improved the prospects of his reelection. . . . The nation . . . has good grounds for distrusting Congress...
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