Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Intimated he might veto the much-mauled Soldiers' Vote Bill, which finally emerged from a closed-door House & Senate compromise committee. The President pondered whether more servicemen could vote under the 1942 soldiers' vote law than under the new bill...
...Bedroom. The President was jovial. He announced cheerfully he had decided to veto the new tax bill. He proceeded to read excerpts from his veto message. A three-against-one argument promptly boiled up. While Wallace sat silent, Barkley, Rayburn and McCormack vigorously tried to persuade the President to change his mind. A veto, they argued, would simply mean throwing away more than two billion dollars in revenue. Why not let this bill become law without his signature? A veto would stir up fresh bitterness in an already restless and resentful Congress...
...fought against some of its provisions; he knew the bill was far from perfect. But this bill was the work and the will of Congress. He could not assent to throwing away 2.3 billion dollars for the reasons raised by the President. If the President persisted in his veto, he, Barkley, would have to stand up on the floor of the Senate and defend his position. Mr. Roosevelt remarked that this was understandable. The conference broke up in strained good humor...
...Greedy." Next day the President sent the veto message to the Capitol. It was the first time in history that a U.S. President had vetoed a general revenue bill. It was addressed to the House, as the tax-originating branch of Congress, and was read only there. But some Senators got copies at their offices...
Some Congressmen think the President has been needled into baiting them by the White House Inner Circle: Harry Hopkins, Sam Rosenman, Felix Frankfurter et al. Last week they were privately blaming the ideas in the tax veto message on Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul, the words on Judge Rosenman. The facts: the message was no hastily okayed product of a Presidential ghost, no result of a sudden fit of Presidential temper. Mr. Roosevelt had been poring over the document for more than a week, weighing its ideas, sifting its language, arguing it with many an adviser. Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson...