Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crystal Gazer. Before the week was out he had proof that his veto and reversal would win him friends-at least for the time being. Alexander Fell Whitney, who once threatened to spend millions of his Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen's dollars to beat Harry Truman, wired that his Brotherhood was "deeply grateful." Said tired Phil Murray: "President Truman is a good political crystal gazer and he knows that if he is going to be a successful candidate in 1948, he has to have the support of organized labor. Whether the veto is or is not a matter...
This week, after a tumultuous storm in the Senate, the veto was overridden (see The Congress). Despite a year of dodging, the Truman Administration had a new labor law in its unwilling hands. Even that looked as if it might be a good political break to Truman Democrats. They had their cake and they could eat it, too. They were freed from responsibility. It was on the Republicans; if the law brought on labor strife, or failed to curb it, it would be the G.O.P.'s doing...
...more than political fortunes were at stake in the President's action. The Republican majority, put on its fighting mettle by the President's veto of both labor and tax bills, was less than ever in a frame of mind to accept Harry Truman's pronouncement that any piece of legislation was good, or bad for the country. The battle of Congress v. President, Republican v. Democrat, which would grow increasingly bitter, might stalemate some legislation still to be completed. The nation's foreign policy, already shaky on its bipartisan foundation, was an immediate case...
...purple-trimmed academic gown. "Whups," he said. "I forgot to pull up my dress." The ceremonies over, he shook hands warmly. "It's been a great day for me. I enjoyed myself thoroughly." Then he had hurried back to Washington and delivered his veto of the labor bill...
...Republican reaction was prompt. Said New York's Senator Irving Ives,who had often taken labor's part in debate and committee room: "[The veto message] is the worst possible interpretation of the provisions of the bill, based on the assumption of the worst possible administration of the act." While the bill's opponents in the Senate filibustered desperately to delay the vote (see The Congress), Senator Robert Taft went on the air half an hour after Harry Truman finished his broadcast and took up Harry Truman's speech...