Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate-set up to oversee agency operations. A more significant and perplexing question is how much power Congress should have to stop CIA plans that it opposes. There is already a consensus on Church's committee that Congress, once informed of the CIA's plans, should have veto power over its operations-a feeling that is bound to rouse strong opposition from the Administration...
...State Department, under a program being established by President Ford. Eventually there will be 17 such coordinators-one each for all eleven Cabinet departments and six agencies. The program is Ford's riposte to a consumer-protection agency that Congress wants to establish and the President plans to veto. Other consumer posts had been set up without attracting attention. Then the State Department announced Mrs. Braden's appointment and Washington went into a tizzy...
...drastic a revision of Resolutions 242 and 338, however, will almost certainly trigger a U.S. veto. "We would strongly oppose any attempt to change them," Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned last week. The principal U.S. objective at the debate is to prevent the Security Council from becoming the main forum for future Middle East peace efforts. Washington is determined either to maintain the step-by-step diplomatic approach that so far has achieved two Israeli-Egyptian Sinai accords and one Israeli-Syrian agreement or to return to the Geneva Conference, jointly sponsored by the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
Under Ford's veto, Dunlop lost that position, and he will come back, to work mainly at the Business School, in early February...
...Ford assumed his more presidential stance by getting in planning sessions with his top advisers, including Alan Greenspan, William Seidman, Paul O'Neill, James T. Lynn and James Cannon. He worked alone on his State of the Union address. He also signed 14 bills and cast his 43rd veto on legislation that would have made the Secretary of the Treasury part of the National Security Council...