Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that your approach to reorganizing the Government would be to ask Congress for executive authority to accomplish the changes, subject to congressional veto later on. How soon will you ask Congress for that authority...
...Immediately-so that we can start ma-ing plans. I would like Congress to direct the President to reorganize the Executive Branch, subject to subsequent veto of the Congress on individual proposals. This would give tremendous substance to the whole thrust-you could go into a department and say, "This is what we want to do now. The law says it must be done, and I'm the President and I'm carrying out Congress's directives and my own commitment to the American people...
...picture contract with the studio. He is holding out for a seven-figure deal on his next project, a "great romantic gothic" movie about Edgar Allan Poe. He also wants to star in the upcoming version of Superman. But Marlon Brando, who will play Superman's father, has veto rights on casting. Says Sly: "I hope he doesn't think I do a cheap imitation of him in the love scene with the undershirt. Italians do wear undershirts...
...Congress for the authority to reorganize the Executive Branch, subject only to a congressional veto. Ultimately, he wants to cut the 1,900 federal agencies to about 200; however, he has disclosed only a few details of his plans. He also proposes creating a Cabinet-level Department of Energy, spinning off an Education Department from HEW, removing the Attorney General from the Cabinet and giving him a term of five to seven years in order to free him from political influence...
...capital punishment] will come before me in January or February," said Apodaca. "I will veto it. The legislature is likely to override that veto. In the event that a man is sentenced to die, I will not commute his death penalty simply because I disagree with it. At that point it is my responsibility to enforce...