Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convention summer session ordered by the Democratic leadership to make campaign hay turned into a Democratic fiasco. Bill after bill was either stopped dead or hacked to pieces by a disciplined coalition of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats. Dick Nixon would not have to explain away any awkward presidential vetoes during his campaign, because President Eisenhower had not had to use his veto.* Although on adjourning Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn pointed with customary pride, they could not camouflage the failure...
...proceeded to pass a modest bill providing medical aid only for "needy" old people, in a joint federal-state program to be administered by the individual states. After a few nicks by a Senate-House conference, the bill got through the House in fair shape to escape a presidential veto...
Medical Insurance for the Aged. House passed an Administration-backed "Medicare" bill for voluntary health insurance subsidized by limited matching federal-state grants. Senate Democratic liberals want a compulsory plan financed by an increase in social security levies. If the Democratic bill looks too costly, Ike may veto...
...Council veto by Britain or France, might well bring Soviet troops into the heart of Africa...
...ornate Lancaster House to debate a new deal for the little land, experts predicted failure. Peppery little Dr. Hastings Banda, idol of Nyasaland blacks, had threatened to walk out if his demands for complete African political control of Nyasaland were not accepted, and white representatives seemed certain to veto anything he suggested. Miraculously, the delegates last week arose from their labors with broad smiles, even if they might prove short-lived...