Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea, (which was defeated by one vote in January, 1950) but he also was absent and unrecorded on Truman's Point Four Program. Eisenhower strongly favors drastic revision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, yet Nixon was one of the Senator's whose vote helped override Truman's veto. Eisenhower strongly favors a liberal, long-term Reciprocal Trade Program, yet Nixon in 1948 voed against a three extension of the trade program...
...last previous full vote came on Jan. 27, 1936, when the Senate voted, 76-19, to override Franklin Delano Roosevelt's veto of the soldier bonus bill. The one vacancy in the Senate at that time was caused by the assassination of Louisiana Democrat Huey Long; the present vacancy was caused by the death of West Virginia Democrat Harley Kilgore...
...State Department was understandably disturbed about the measure. U.S. investors have a $9 billion stake in Canada and could be hard hit if any Canadian legislature retaliated against U.S. firms. The Department got off a strong letter to Governor McKeldin urging him to "give appropriate consideration" i.e., veto bill 38, and warning that "an unfriendly attitude toward Canadian investments in the U.S. could easily stimulate . . . hostility toward American enterprises in Canada...
...Texas 17 newspaper publishers, polled (at the Texas Daily Newspaper Association meeting in Dallas) on whether Ike could carry Texas again, voted nine no, eight yes. Those who felt that Texas still likes Ike in spite of the gas bill veto advanced a homey piece of logic to back their argument: Texas still has more gas consumers than gas producers...
...President has used his veto power 64 times, 26 times to kill general legislative items, 38 times on private bills covering damage claims by individuals against the Government...