Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equal number of Southern Democrats tempted to vote for a tough bill but under heavy pressure from Speaker Rayburn-"This is a party issue. What are you, a Democrat or a Republican?"-to vote for the Elliott bill. And over the battle hung the prospect of a presidential veto of any labor bill that did not meet the proposition, as the President put it, "that American workers and the public get the kind of protection that Americans deserve...
...admit for a second that all the allegations you make [are] fact," replied the President. "When you come down to it, I am trying to do what will be good for the country. I don't enjoy vetoing bills [see below]. I don't believe that there is any validity in such expressions as 'government by veto.' I am part of the process of legislation and . . . I, who am the only official, along with the Vice President, who is voted into office by all the people . . . think I have got a special responsibility...
Last week the President, as expected, refused to buy. "To my disappointment," he wrote in a blunt veto message,* "the Congress has presented me with a bill so excessive in the spending it proposes, and so defective in other respects, that it would do far more damage than good." Specific objections: an "excessive" $900 million for urban-renewal outlays coupled with a cut in the share borne by local governments, a brand-new direct loan scheme to build homes for the aged, subsidized loans to build college classrooms, looser requirements on certain classes of FHA loans. In sum, the bill...
...veto rattled Democrats in both halls of Congress. Senate Leader Johnson attacked "vetoes and vetoes and vetoes," chided Ike for requiring Congress to pass his proposals "without crossing a 't' or dotting an 'i.' " But the odds were high that Eisenhower, riding the tide of thrift, would eventually get what Johnson knew the White House wanted: a housing law that renews the nearly exhausted FHA mortgage-insurance authority, extends home-improvement and military-housing loan insurance programs and costs about the $1.6 billion the President asked in the first place...
...16th major veto in seven years, his fourth in 1959. The other three this year: REA, wheat, tobacco bills...