Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress hopes to send a bill to President Ford next week restoring the flow of federal cash. Ford will be under great pressure to sign it. A veto would bring accusations that the President is trying to starve less affluent campaigners. In fact, it is a dilatory Congress that has brought about their present plight...
That mood manifested itself most strongly on defense. The President had proposed military outlays of $101.1 billion, and vowed to veto any reductions. Though liberal Democrats wanted to cut as much as $7 billion, the House Budget Committee reduced Ford's target by only $500 million. The Senate Budget Committee proposed an even more meaningless $300 million cutback...
SOCIAL PROGRAMS. The congressional budgeteers voted to increase spending above Ford's targets for food stamps, health care, educational assistance and environmental programs. If enacted, many of their proposals face a veto, since the President believes that they involve excessive spending and are thus inflationary...
...Robinson Rojas Sanford makes clear in The Murder of Allende, the weakness of Allende's political power was trivial compared to the threat of military rebellion. The Chilean armed forces, whose function until then had been to deter an unlikely Peruvian invasion and to suppress internal dissent, clearly held veto power over the Popular Unity government. But Allende, though imprisoned by these restrictions, refused to acknowledge them, speaking as though socialism had taken hold in Chile. His temerity and the myth of an apolitical armed forces made the coup a great surprise to those who had believed...
...venture proved so successful that within five years other men had plans afoot to build another bridge upstream. By this time Hancock was governor. He didn't dare veto the bridge outright. Instead, he did what he considered the next best thing. He required it to be built near the Pest House-the infirmary for contangious diseased-and required the builders to pay Harvard 300 pounds per year as a fee. The proprietors regarded the first condition as perfectly convenient and, as to the second, they took their case to the general court which agreed they should pay Harvard...