Word: veto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House Sustains Veto...
WASHINGTON, April 30--By four votes, House Democrats failed today in an all-out bid to break President Eisenhower's six-year record of never having a veto overridden by Congress...
...original Kennedy measure was unsatisfactory to conservatives. No doubt the House will make a few changes, and more steps will be involved in a reconciliation between the House and Senate, but the present form is, for various reasons, fairly close to what the President must eventually sign or veto...
...proposal soon ran into trouble for two reasons: 1) the Russians demanded veto power over the makeup and movements of inspection teams on Russian territory, thus rendering inspection worthless; 2) U.S. scientists discovered that they had seriously overestimated the ability of inspectors to detect underground explosions. Alarmed by the miscalculation, the Pentagon, the Atomic Energy Commission and some members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy urgently asked President Eisenhower to modify the U.S. offer lest the U.S. get tied to a crippling agreement that an enemy could violate without detection...
Eisenhower alluded to Soviet demands for veto power and to other road-blocking Russian proposals, and again rejected them...