Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Kennedy knew about the Sullivan petition to buy Cambridge Common land across from Littauer Center, O'Donnell maintained that "the President had nothing to do with Gov. Volpe's veto of the bill...
...Donnell told the CRIMSON that Volpe's veto and the State Senate's subsequent 19-17 decision to uphold it were not caused by any pressure or influence from the Kennedy Administration. He implied that any pressure placed on Volpe came from local sources, such as the University and the Cambridge Civic Association...
...prominent visitors at MIT in their remarks what one explicitly: "We are the first to hold a veto power over human evolution...
...Rusk later. "One of the purposes of foreign policy is not to produce drama but to work hard at problems and solve them." This sort of approach had the support of Britain, and U.S. diplomats felt that they had at least won France's implicit pledge not to veto the use of force in Laos by other SEATO members. Rusk confided to an aide: "This will make Kennedy happy." But the Thais, Filipinos and Pakistanis were plunged into gloom, expressed fears that the West might accede to "a Munich deal...
...State Senate passed the bill to sell the plot across from Littauer, 20 to 9, Feb. 23; four days later the Senate voted, 21 to 15, for final approval. Governor Volpe, a Republican, vetoed the bill; and one week ago the Senate upheld the veto...