Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adjournment convulsion the Congress sent 190 bills to Ford's desk, each of which required action. He vetoed the bill designed to get more Indians into the Bureau of Indian Affairs. No wonder: to make room for Indians, the bill offered to retire all non-Indians over the age of 50 at full pension, a precedent that would have caused turmoil in the civil service. Nonetheless, the veto will anger some Indians...
Although the governor has not yet announced an official decision, David Liederman, the aide, said he will probably veto the measure...
...gets on well with blue-collar ethnic families. He de-emphasizes the G.O.P. label and tries to come across as an independent who cares enough about working-class problems to vote occasionally against Republican Administration positions. Two weeks ago, for instance, he voted to override President Ford's veto of the $56 billion HEW appropriation bill...
...pass its laws. While it would include equal numbers of black and white members, the council would be chaired by a white and all decisions would require a two-thirds majority, giving the whites--who are outnumbered more than 20 to one in the population--the ability to veto any real challenges to their privileged political and economic status. The state council would appoint a majority black council of ministers, but defense and internal security ministries would remain under white control. Meanwhile, with the military and police forces of the state in white hands, black liberation fighters are supposed...
Critics complain that Ford lacks compassion for America's unfortunates, noting that most of his 56 vetoes have been aimed at social welfare programs. But the vetoes reflect Ford's innate skepticism that big Government programs are the answer to society's shortcomings. Aides have often detected a hard edge to the President's voice in discussions of pending social legislation. One White House adviser describes him as "the kind of guy who would take his shirt off his back and give it to a poor kid he saw on the street and then walk...