Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would the President veto it if it passed Congress this week in the agreed form? "I have every hope he will sign it," said Barkley, then added, "that is based on my desire, I guess...
...having belatedly discovered that possession of the bomb is only a temporary asset, and utterly worthless as a weapon of diplomacy, is now trying to cash it in for something more permanent and substantial-the abolition of Russia's veto. But it is idle to suppose that the U.S.S.R. can be stampeded into such a deal, when they know: 1) that nothing can possibly happen to them for refusing; we are not going to use the bomb for the next five or ten years in any event; 2 ) by that time they will also have the bomb...
...heartedly scurried into maneuvers in the House to save what they might of the second OPA bill. It had been shredded of many controls the President thought were essential. The Senate had defiantly voted a bill that was worse, from his point of view, than the one he had vetoed. The Senate's 62-to-15 vote had said to him in effect: all right, if you don't like it, you can throw price control out the window again-veto...
...Duke was in fine fettle. Someone mentioned that Andrei Gromyko took in the Louis-Conn fight. That was one decision, he quipped, that Gromyko couldn't veto...
Ordinarily most members of Congress-particularly Senators-are not oversensitive to letter pressure.* They well knew that President Truman had incited much of this tide of jeers by his bold veto ramble and by his radio talk to the people. But the deep general fright over the rising cost of living showed through these letters. Many a Congressman caught the inflation jitters, took a long second thought...