Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conference participants issued a statement to President Ford asking that the U.S. not veto the entrance of Vietnam to the U.N. when the question arises...
ENVIRONMENT. In trying to defend his Administration's generally weak record on environmental protection, Ford fell into some exaggerations. He claimed he had vetoed a strip-mining-control bill because it would have meant a loss of some 140,000 jobs. In fact, that was an inflated industry claim; in his own veto message last year, Ford contended that it might mean the loss of at most 36,000 jobs. Carter was right in pointing out that the job-conscious United Mine Workers had backed the bill. He was correct too in noting that Ford had held back funds...
...inequities of pas tax legislation. At the same time, the Ford administration has judiciously encouraged corporate tax deducations in order to encourage investment and attendant generation of jobs in the private sector. With considerable vision, Ford has bucked the big-spending Democratic Congress in favor of fiscal responsibility. Through veto after veto he has condemned deficit spending and debasement of the currency as sure to destroy incentives to save, to invest and to create jobs...
...blocking of public school surveys vital to enforcement of civil rights legislation and Ford's inflammatory flirtation with Boston's busing opponents; a tax policy that effectively increases social stratification instead of countering the regressive impact of sales and property taxes; and finally, an environmental policy that brought a veto of the watered down stripmining bill and opposition to pollution standards that could restore tolerable air quality to American cities and cut medical bills by millions of dollars...
...private bill for Mrs. Camilla Hester of Foley, Ala. She is a widow who has been unjustly denied a federal pension because of legal complexities. The bill contained a couple of quirks that would establish bad pension precedents. The President felt compelled to reject it with his 61st veto. Mrs. Hester, who has been leaning toward Ford in this campaign, allowed as how she was "disappointed." She seemed understanding. But who knows how Mrs. Hester and her family will vote...