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President Truman fired off his first veto to the new 82nd Congress. It was promptly overridden by the House, which added that he used to feel differently about such things when he was plain Senator Harry S. Truman...
...Letter. Harry Truman had warned Congress of just such trouble. Congress had ignored him, overridden his veto by humiliating majorities. Now Harry Truman was gleefully proving his point by enforcing the law to the letter...
...page boys burst in with mimeographed copies of the message, members grabbed eagerly at the bundles, helped pass them out. With little more than a glance, they began shouting: "Vote! Vote!" And minutes after the clerk had intoned Harry Truman's 5,500 words of warning, they had overridden the veto without a word of debate, by a thumping...
...80th Congress has overridden six Truman vetoes. Andrew Johnson was overridden 15 times in his one term, Franklin D. Roosevelt nine times in four terms...