Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the unexpectedly strong plea for basic revisions in the McCarran-Walter Act is not going to effect the needed reforms in an election year. Faced with President Truman's veto of the Act just before the last election, over two-thirds of the House and Senate, voted to over-ride. And among those who voted to pass the Act were many Democratic Senators who now control important posts--Johnson, George, Fulbright, Byrd, Eastland--as well as both Knowland and Bridges. If the President puts his full authority behind the changes, however, Congress should accept some, even...
...Democrats will set up a pious, baritone moan about the wretched plight of American agriculture. They will pass a farm-relief bill, loaded till its axles creak with rigid price supports, loans, 'conservation' payments, and other shabbily disguised subsidies. Then they will pray for the President to veto...
...South Carolina's John C. Calhoun brought the doctrine to its full flower. He gave the back of his hand to numerical majorities, inventing the phrase "concurrent majority," by which he meant the agreement of "each interest or portion of the [national] community." Each group should have a veto power to stop governmental action favored by all the others, much as the U.N. Security Council works-or fails to work-today. Wrote Calhoun: "It is this negative power-the power of preventing or arresting the action of the Government-be it called by what term it may-veto, interposition...
Would Nationalist China defy the wishes of the majority of the U.N. General Assembly and use its Great Power veto to keep Outer Mongolia out of the U.N.-and with it 17 other countries?* Or had the threats of its many enemies and the pleas of its few friends persuaded Nationalist China to soften its opposition to a bargain the rest of the world had tentatively struck with the Communists? Blinking like a mournful owl from behind his glasses. Nationalist Delegate T. F. Tsiang slowly delivered the Nationalists' answer. "The peoples all over the world expect the United Nations...
...next 20 minutes, the longest fusillade of vetoes in the U.N.'s veto-pocked history rent the Security Council. Tsiang, as promised, used China's veto for the first time. He vetoed Outer Mongolia. Russia's Arkady Sobolev, as he had warned, sprayed 15 vetoes at non-Communist candidates (including two, South Korea and South Viet Nam, proposed only by Tsiang...