Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) Through the cloakrooms and corridors outside the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives the seam-faced, stumpy, blue-eyed man moved restlessly, relentlessly. Trying to collar enough votes to sustain the presidential veto of a budget-busting. Democratic-sponsored rural electrification bill, he took fresh aim at each of his Republican colleagues. To one he snapped: "Don't you forget that in 1960 you're going to have to run on Eisen hower's record." To another he appealed: "This is a straight political issue. Are you going to let the Democrats get away with...
...return for the loyalty he demands, Old Pro Halleck is especially careful to care for his walking wounded. When Indiana's William Bray gave in to Halleck and voted to sustain the Rural Electrification Administration veto, he feared that it would cost him his career. After the vote he told Halleck he was finished-there were just too many REA supporters in his district. Halleck got on the telephone, called Republican leaders in Bray's district (Martinsville), told them to rally behind the worried Congressman...
...dinner with a dozen or so Democratic Senators. Acheson listened restlessly while his tablemates complained about the difficulty of getting their programs accepted by the Administration. Finally, one Senator asked: "Mr. Acheson, what would you do if you were faced with the problem that faces us? Eisenhower will veto everything we want." Replied Dean Acheson: "I would refuse to do anything. I would refuse to confirm even one second lieutenant until those bastards give...
...Representative Walter Judd, onetime medical missionary in China, urged the West to do its utmost to help refugees from Communist aggression. "Every refugee who comes out,-". said Judd, "is a vote for our society and a vote against their society." ¶ Avoided the strong prospect of having an Eisenhower veto overridden for the first time during his Administration by signing a railroad retirement bill ($150 to $200 million more annual benefits) that he and most of his advisers (Budget
Bureau, Department of Commerce, Council of Economic Advisers) considered unsound. But insofar as the decision was based on keeping his veto record intact, it was an irrelevancy-like a baseball player, worried more about his average than anything else, bunting to keep up a hitting streak...