Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME'S report on Rhodesia [Dec. 6] states that the procedure agreed to by Premier Ian Smith and Sir Alec Douglas-Home "gives the whites an effective veto at the crucial final stage" in progress toward majority rule...
...week. The child-care centers would be run by local "prime sponsors" -cities, towns, counties or even such groups as Indian tribal councils. The price tag for the first year would be $2 billion, not vastly more than Nixon's own plan, but the President chose to veto it. He damned it roundly for "fiscal irresponsibility, administrative unworkabili-ty and family-weakening implications...
...seemed like a bit of a reach, but Nixon was clearly taking the offensive in order to avoid the peril of being cast as a kind of Scrooge -against day care, against helping working parents, even against children. The Democrats are sure to make a political issue of the veto; Mondale and other backers of the bill were already calling it the most significant social legislation to come out of the 92nd Congress...
...rights groups and educational associations. The Senate vote had been a lopsided 63 to 17, but many Republicans who had supported the bill originally fell into line behind the President. Thus the bill's backers could not muster the two-thirds majority necessary to override Nixon's veto...
...ambitious than a federal babysitting service. Congress' bold day-care plan had its defects, but its goals raised a far-reaching question: How much in the way of useful new social services can the world's most prosperous land afford? If the bill and Nixon's veto at least produce what Nixon called "a great national debate upon its merit," then they may have served a vital purpose...