Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whooping it up, Democrats savored their first, sweet victory over "Government by veto." Some, however, detected a sour aftertaste. The President is not required to release funds for new projects, will probably start few of the obnoxious 67 projects. More important, in a strictly partisan decision, congressional Democrats dipped into the narrowly balanced budget to fund the oldest, most obvious form of political spending in federal politics. Cracked White House Press Secretary James Hagerty in a rare reflection of presidential cynicism: "The lure of the pork barrel was a little too much for Congress to avoid...
...Warded off a third housing-bill veto by accepting White House direction on where to make further cuts (the $50 million college-classroom program, a spread-out in the spending of $650 million urban renewal funds), but retained some of the Ike-disliked features (a $50 million program to build homes for the elderly, extra public-housing starts) in a $1 billion bill that is still high ($200 million above budget) but less than half its original Democratic size...
...nine Presidents who preserved perfect veto records throughout their terms handed down a total of only 86 vetoes: Washington (2), Madison (7), Monroe (1), Jackson (12), Polk (3), Buchanan (7), Lincoln (6), McKinley (42), Harding...
More startling, and potentially perhaps even more important, were the effects of Ike's initiative behind the Iron Curtain. In the U.N. Security Council Russia accepted with uncharacteristic calm the proposition that its cherished veto power did not apply to the dispatch of a U.N. team to investigate Communist aggression in Laos. And from Moscow came a determinedly noncommittal Kremlin announcement on the border dispute between Red China and India. Clearly concerned lest Mao Tse-tung's aggressiveness sabotage Khrushchev's dream of establishing "Big Two" relations with the U.S.-and probably concerned, too, at the setback...
...succession of Russian nyets has prevented the Security Council from acting in the quick, decisive manner envisioned for it in the U.N. Charter. Last week once again the Soviet Union, playing for time that would enable Red invasion force to overthrow the government of Laos, was ready to veto any proposed U.N. action. But this time U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge came up with a surprise. Months ago he had ordered his staff to pore through the thousands of pages of Security Council proceedings in search of a model for a veto-proof resolution. Owing to Lodge's foresight...