Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flurry of manifestoes and speeches, the party's liberals roared out their annoyance at Compromiser Johnson's policy of trimming Democratic plans to fit political facts of life-such as Dwight Eisenhower's popularity, his veto weapon, and the appeal of his balanced-budget goal to the U.S.'s current conservative temper. Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph S. Clark, who sounded a call for a lot of bold new spending programs after the Democratic victory last November, stood up in the Senate and denounced the Johnson approach as an effort to "block that veto" by turning out "legislation...
...before a shot was fired." The A.D.A.-ish National Committee for An Effective Congress accused Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn of "liberal talking, conservative legislating." And in the latest Democratic Digest, National Chairman Paul Butler took the inside cover to urge the congressional Democrats not to let the veto threat scare them into "watering down our vital programs...
...budget, but I never believed it. My voters never cared about these big problems down in Washington. But this year, for the first time, I find the people on Main Street are really concerned about spending.") In defense of his program, the President has learned to use the veto-and threats of veto-effectively. Strongly supported by Republicans in House and Senate, and also by the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, Kentucky's Thruston Morton, the President holds the initiative. Since the Gallup polls have shown the Republican Party in general to be slipping badly (TIME, June...
...Senate and House conferees shaved .more than $1 billion and four years off the Senate version of the omnibus housing bill, agreed on a two-year, $1,375,400,000 appropriation in the hope that it would escape the veto...
...Double Veto. De Gaulle was obviously trying to prod the U.S. out of its longstanding refusal to share nuclear secrets with France-a refusal that has unquestionably hampered French scientists in their effort to devise their own Abomb. In London, where 650 leading citizens of 14 NATO countries assembled in an Atlantic Congress to mull over the state of the alliance, French General Marcel Carpentier grumbled: "Britain and America have secrets and can use them as they wish. It is because of this double veto that France has decided to build its own Continental deterrent...