Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friendly loan without note or collateral. But it just so happened that while Ungar was paying to have Jack's bedroom painted orchid pink, he was also seeking city approval of a $30 million slum clearance project-and Hulan Jack, as borough president, held the right of veto. Ungar's project got the green light until early last year, when newspapers identified would-be Slum Clearer Ungar as the owner of some of New York's worst slum housing; later he was denied project sponsorship, and Hulan Jack himself voted against his friend...
...protest that the treaty revision commits Japan to support all U.S. moves in the Pacific and may therefore "attract the lightning" of a Communist H-bomb attack. There are U.S. reservations about the treaty as well; many Pentagon staff officers complain that it gives Japan what amounts to a veto over the movement of U.S. troops on the perimeter of the Asian mainland...
...saddening fact about this welfare program, in Democratic eyes, is that even if the Democrats get it all past the President's veto barrier, the total political value may be slight compared to the appeal of the President's peace issue. Last week a newsman asked a top Democratic strategist how much he thought the welfare program, if enacted, would be worth to the party's presidential candidate next November. Said the strategist, after a moment of silent thought: "Nothing...
...control program would be no different from a Protestant President faced with an analogous religious issue. For example: a Methodist with a bill that would provide drinking facilities for the armed forces; a Christian Scientist, in a public health program; a Quaker, in a defense budget. The President can veto a bill that he does not approve, and yet support the bill should it be passed over his veto...
...would have to go up by about $2 billion; he soon got the word from the boss), wrote personal letters to political, business and civic leaders around the nation, urged his cause in press conferences and on radio and television, worked closely with Republican congressional leaders, and used his veto and the threat of his veto against lolly-gagging money bills. At year's end a balanced budget was in jeopardy, only because of the steel strike. Eisenhower had performed the political miracle of making economy popular. Grinned a White House staffer: "When those Congressmen come back in January, they...