Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treaty was limited to ten years, at which point Japan could refuse to renew it, and pledged the U.S. to "consult" with Japan before reacting militarily to a threat to Japanese or Far Eastern security. Implicitly-and by Japanese interpretation-the new treaty gave the Japanese government a veto power over the kind of weapons the U.S. could maintain in Japan as well as over deployment of Japan-based U.S. forces...
...number held by "the least populous states" (Alaska, Vermont, Delaware, Nevada, Wyoming and Hawaii). ¶ The House, under the hard eye of swarming lobbyists, launched a 7.5%, across-the-board pay hike for 1,600,000 civil service and postal employees. Cost: $746 million. Headed for a sure veto by Ike, the election-year offering passed by a lopsided 377-40, swept through the Senate by another veto-proof landslide (62-17), over sharp complaints by Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater ("A purely political bill") and Idaho's Frank Church, Democratic Convention keynoter: "I can't in good conscience...
...foreign bases as well as of nuclear means of delivery, Nikita's scheme would give Russia, with its huge conventional forces, crushing military superiority over the U.S. By subjecting the proposed international police force to the U.N. Security Council, the Soviets would also subject its operations to their veto. And after studying the inspection proposals, one U.S. disarmament expert commented: "The Russians would let you watch them destroy what they would say was 50% of their air force, but you would have no way of knowing...
Unreason Season. The farm problem promised to provide a veto target as big as a barn door. In February the President gave up trying to draft a bill to bring some order into the ever-growing mess of farm subsidies and surpluses, challenged the Democratic Congress to pass a reasonable bill on its own. The Democrats reasoned that it would be better to pass no bill and let Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson harvest some more blame for farm discontent. But word has drifted back from the farm belt that Democrats may well be blamed if they do not pass...
...balanced budget of $2.4 billion. The legislature raised Brown's recommended 5% salary increase for 115,000 state employees to 6%, but the Governor (who has an item veto on figures) knocked it back down to size by clipping $4,910,000 from the appropriation...