Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Washington, a twelve-nation conference at last got around to approving a charter for the agency that will run the atoms-for-peace program. The Russians dropped their 1½-year-old insistence that it come under the U.N. Security Council, where they hold a veto. The Indians stopped haggling about the rights of have-not nations when the U.S. and Russia agreed that the agency should submit reports to the 76-nation U.N. General Assembly. The twelve countries agreed that the agency should receive, regulate and distribute fissionable materials, as the President had proposed back...
Right after President Eisenhower's veto of the farm bill, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson set the style for Democratic reaction. "The veto of the farm bill," keynoted Johnson, "can be described only as a crushing blow to the hopes and the legitimate desires of American agriculture." Then, as other Democrats arose in the Senate to lambaste the President, Johnson sprawled out in his chair, grinned broadly and winked at his party colleagues. Feeling that they had at last been handed a deadly issue against Dwight Eisenhower, other Democrats grinned along with Lyndon Johnson in the early days...
...House side, Speaker Sam Rayburn, his battle gorge up, decided to contest the presidential veto without even consulting House Agriculture Committee Chairman Harold Cooley, who was back home in North Carolina. While Rayburn knew that he could not get the two-thirds vote necessary to override the veto, he felt sure that he could win the simple majority necessary to show that Ike was flouting the clear will of Congress. But Mister Sam's famed political antenna wasn't working...
Outmaneuvered. In the hours before the vote on overriding, a secondary political reaction began to set in. Congressmen with an ear cocked to the country began to hear editorial approval of the President's veto in such Midwestern cities as Milwaukee, Kansas City, Omaha and Chicago, and from such Southern centers as Dallas, Miami, Richmond and Memphis. Even the Des Moines Register, a supporter of the farm bill, was philosophical. Republican leaders meeting in Washington (see below) began to perk up after initial despondency. The President, they figured, had pulled the rug from under the Democrats by his principle...
Known Devil. The leadership crisis extended even to Congress, generally considered the hard core of Democratic strength. The President's veto of the natural-gas bill last February was a blow to the prestige of those leading Texans, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. And Rayburn's fumble in bringing the farm-bill veto to a House' vote last week undermined what had seemed to be the party's most promising issue. Even if the Democrats pick up farm votes, there is still the civil-rights issue-on which congressional Democrats...