Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. The chatter about the New Eisenhower came during an Ike week that was dramatic in several other ways. The President was in his usual top form at his press conference, held in a converted Gettysburg gymnasium. On Capitol Hill, an attempt to override an Eisenhower veto of an inflated housing bill failed miserably and all but nailed down a victory for Ike in his long, steady fight to balance the U.S. budget. After the year's most dramatic legislative battle, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed a stern anti-racketeering labor bill...
...fifth time since Dwight Eisenhower took office in 1953, the U.S. Congress last week tried to override a presidential veto-and for the fifth time it failed. Last week's Senate vote of 55-40, nine short of the two-thirds majority needed to override, came on the $1,375,000,000 housing bill, which Ike had vetoed in his battle to keep the nation's budget in balance. The issue was forced by the Senate's Democratic liberals, desperately anxious to get out from under the President's firm fiscal thumb. In insisting...
Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, a master at the art of the possible, had argued against the attempt. "We told them there wasn't a chance of overriding that veto," says a Johnson aide. "They wouldn't listen. They wanted to butt their heads against a wall." Said Johnson after the vote, in pointed reference to his liberal colleagues: "We didn't kid anybody but ourselves." Next day the Senate Banking and Currency Committee approved a substitute, trimmed-down housing bill of $1,050,000,000-$240 million above the amount recommended by President Eisenhower, but perhaps...
Like Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman before him, Dwight Eisenhower met with stony stares when he urged Congress to give him the chance for an "item veto," enabling him to slice an objectionable section out of a bill without killing the whole bill with the veto ax. But last week Ike got rid of an obnoxious provision in a bill by what amounted to an item veto. Oldtimers in Congress said they could not recall anything quite like...
...year, the $1 billion that the U.S. Government has invested in it over the past 25 years. The President approved all three points, but he strenuously objected to a provision empowering Congress to amend future TVA project plans and expenditures by concurrent resolutions, bypassing the President and his veto power. Determined to preserve the constitutional balance of powers between the executive and legislative branches, Ike hinted at a press conference that, though he liked the other provisions, he intended to veto the TVA bill, because the "unwise proviso" would "encroach" on presidential powers-a "very, very serious mistake." What saved...