Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor men could do -except threaten to ask for higher wages the minute the new control bill is passed-and Mr. Truman knew it. Labor leaders had tried to talk up a letter-writing campaign among their rank & file, but no one listened. They suggested that the President might veto the bill. But he only turned a "poker face" to the suggestion, one of the conferees later mournfully reported. Mr. Truman was licked on the bill...
...Nationalists - from signing the treaty (Japan will be free to choose later which Chinese regime it wishes to make peace with). Last week the State Department rejected the Russian. proposal. Said Dulles: "I hope the Russians will come along, but... we will proceed in any event. They have no veto power over this situation...
President Truman fired off his first veto to the new 82nd Congress. It was promptly overridden by the House, which added that he used to feel differently about such things when he was plain Senator Harry S. Truman...
...dollars." Vinson quoted from the 1944 report of the Truman Investigating Committee, which raised hob about the Army's hotel leases and concluded "The War Department should review the entire situation in detail and report to the proper legislative committees of the Congress . . ." An aroused House overrode the veto...
RUSSELL: "So if that was a recommendation of the Joint Chiefs, it encountered a veto somewhere along the line, either from the Secretary of Defense or from the Commander in Chief, the President of the United States...