Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Anderson, Persons, Halleck and Dirksen giving him incalculable aid, Ike adeptly forced his balanced budget upon the overwhelmingly Democratic 86th Congress. His sharpest instrument was his veto power; five times so far this year, the President vetoed measures he considered extravagant, and each time he made his veto stick. By mid-session, even as Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson was grumbling about "vetoes, vetoes, vetoes," the Democratic congressional leadership threw in the towel, began working for legislation close enough to the President's own spending recommendations to escape the veto. At that point, the Eisenhower budget battle...
Despite the Democratic majorities confronting him in Congress in all but the first two years of his Administration, Dwight Eisenhower built up a remarkable record of making his vetoes stick: of his first 143 vetoes. Congress failed to override a single one. Last week, just before he took off for Europe, the President jeopardized his perfect record with Veto No. 144. Turned down: the lardy, $1.2 billion public works bill, more popularly called "the pork-barrel bill." Objected Ike in his veto message: the bill included 67 new projects not listed in his budget. These projects would add only...
Some of Congress' top Republicans, including Indiana's House Minority Leader Charles Halleck, advised Ike not to veto the pork-barrel bill, hog-fat as it was. It had passed the House by a voice vote and the Senate by a lopsided 82 to 9, and since it included projects for every state, a lot of Republicans would be tempted to vote to override the veto. Said Iowa's Congressman Ben Jensen, ranking Republican on the Appropriations subcommittee that drafted the measure: "I just can't see how the President could veto this bill." Before boarding...
...disability pensions of more than 1,100,000 veterans and their widows and orphans. The payoff, long advocated by the American Legion, would amount to $10 billion, spread over 40 years. The House, by voice vote, went along with the Senate, but the chances of the bill escaping a veto were slight...
...Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps. Under its terms, some 150,000 males, aged 16 to 21, would eventually serve for terms ranging from six months to two years, receive $60 a month, plus room, board and transportation. The bill had about as much chance of beating a veto as the Washington Senators have of winning the World Series...