Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after prolonged conferences with Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft. Benson, the President reached a decision. In Augusta, Ga., miles away from the clamor of Washington, he decided to let principle not politics be his guide. As he headed home for Washington. Dwight Eisenhower made up his mind to veto the farm bill. This week...
...bald Sam Rayburn and other Democratic leaders were telling the doubtful among the Democrats that the bill might provide the only way to get a Democrat elected President in November. A key proposition in the Democratic reasoning: if Congress should pass the bill and the President should veto it (as many Democrats expected and hoped he would). Democrats could say that the Democratic Congress handed the farmers $2 billion and the Republican President took it away...
...recommendation for a "soft veto," i.e., accompanied by reassurances to farmers, came from Franklin Roosevelt's longtime (1933-40) Secretary of Agriculture, onetime (1941-45) Vice President Henry Agard Wallace. Farmer Wallace added that he will vote for Eisenhower in November, "not on the farm issue but on the peace issue...
...area, and did so at the strategic time when U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was flying east to work toward a cease-fire between Israel and Egypt (see FOREIGN NEWS). Moreover, the support for U.N. implied that the U.S. would expect help from Moscow (in not using its veto power on the Security Council) if Moscow really wants to keep the peace...
Pundit Walter Lippmann, who rarely finds much to cheer in the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy, called the new policy "surely right." Wrote Lippmann: "The threatened Palestinian war is just the kind of war that the U.N. is designed to prevent. The U.N. recognizes in the veto provision the fact that if the great powers themselves are in direct conflict, the U.N. can do nothing more than attempt to conciliate. But where only small powers are involved, it is possible to limit if not to prevent war, provided the Big Five concur. Working through the U.N. . . . fixes the fact that...