Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appropriation wrangle), to heed a string of top-priority problems ranging from the Treasury interest ceiling to the appalling farm mess. "We still have a great deal to get done for America," said he. But Democratic congressional leaders, forewarned fortnight ago of Ike's determination to veto big-spending bills, went right ahead setting up fat targets...
...necessary single legislative day despite eleven roll calls demanded by Southerners and Republicans trying to delay action. The bill passed, 201 to 184-a comfortable margin but far short of the two-thirds majority (of those present and voting) that would be needed to override Ike's certain veto...
...vote on the housing bill was 214 (201 Democrats, 13 Republicans) to 163 (123 Republicans, 40 Democrats, mostly Southerners) - and 163 votes are more than enough to sustain the inevitable Eisenhower veto...
...denounced the House's $251 million depressed-areas bill as "political payola," and its housing bill as "a billion dollars' worth of baloneyola." Neither bill "can become law," said Halleck, "because if we can't beat them, we certainly can muster enough votes to sustain a veto...
...answer was-and is-no." He is opposed to federal assistance for parochial schools ("clearly unconstitutional"), opposed to sending an ambassador to the Vatican ("It was last proposed by a Baptist President"), and if confronted with a bill providing foreign aid funds for birth control, "I would neither veto nor sign such a bill on any basis except what I considered to be the public interest...