Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nature of the interim government. The provisions in the settlement for white veto power and control of the army and security forces of the transitional government will seriously undermine the ability to produce effective majority rule. Majority rule can mean many different things in practice--Smith has not yet accepted the principle of one man, one vote, for example--and a government with a white veto power and white monopoly of legal coercive force could easily produce a constitution which is not truly democratic though it is nominally committed to majority rule...
Ford also scored political points as he directed U.N. Ambassador William Scranton to cast a U.N. veto of Viet Nam's attempts to join the United Nations, mainly because it has failed to supply complete information on U.S. servicemen still missing in Southeast Asia. (Carter said he wholeheartedly favored the veto on the same grounds.) Apparently because of the likely veto, the Security Council postponed action on Viet Nam until after the U.S. election...
...from Salem, Va.: "Nixon should have been treated like any other man and gotten the punishment that any other man would have gotten." In addition, six out of ten Carter supporters shared the complaint of Isabelle Sullivan, a blue-collar Democrat from Geneva, N.Y., that "Ford does use his veto power so much-and not for the good of the country." But only one out of six Ford supporters has similar misgivings about the vetoes...
...Alabama's George Wallace was elected Governor in 1962 standing four-square on a platform against a state sales-tax increase. After he was elected, the legislature voted in favor of a tax hike, and House Speaker Albert Brewer visited the Governor to commiserate "because you'll have to veto it." Brewer later recalled: "He looked at me in silence for a moment and said, 'I'll just holler nigger and everybody will forget it.' And he did. And they did." In his 1963 inaugural speech, Wallace proclaimed: "Segregation now?segregation tomorrow?segregation forever." But on a November weekend...
...suggests, was likely to influence the advice Wyatt and his staff would offer as head of Financial Systems (indeed, Wyatt's success on this front was cited this summer when he was named to the vice presidential post); In other words, in his second position Wyatt held a consulting veto power over decisions like whether or not to contract for work from OIT. From the Financial Systems post, Brown-Beasley adds, Wyatt could assure the OIT computer, analysts and programmers a steady stream of work. He would also be less likely to blow the whistle on projects that ran past...