Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress, Nixon suffered his worst defeat since the rejection of two of his Supreme Court nominees. The Congress overrode his veto and placed new limits on his war powers (see story page 30). Top officials of the AFL-CIO launched a campaign to get the union's 13.5 million members to demand the President's "immediate impeachment." The union's convention had called upon Nixon to resign, but since he apparently will not, the AFL-CIO statement said, there are 19 reasons why he should be impeached. Among them: "He has consistently lied to the American people;" "He has violated...
...withhold funds later if it disagrees with the operations of the U.N. troops; the Chinese will ante up nothing at all. And Soviet Ambassador to the U.N. Yakov Malik was continuing to try to bring the emergency force under the control of the Security Council, where Russia has a veto, rather than under Secretary General Kurt Waldheim. The U.S. opposes Malik's demand...
...bill includes a provision that Congress can halt the war commitment any time during the 60 or 90 days with a simple House-Senate concurrent resolution not subject to a presidential veto...
...convinced that if and when a double vacancy occurs, an amendment to the 1947 act would enable the nation to schedule a special election to fill both offices. Such an amendment could be passed by a simple majority in both houses of Congress. It could of course be vetoed by Nixon or either Ford or Albert, if one of the two had by then succeeded Nixon. But had events moved far enough for Congress to feel the election was necessary, it would be a perilous veto for a President to exercise and one that Congress would likely override...
...demilitarization could be guaranteed by a permanent United Nations force-one that could be withdrawn only by the Security Council. With its veto power, the U.S. could thus assure Israel that the force could never be taken away without American assent. A similar U.N. force could be established at Sharm el Sheikh, a strategic point overlooking the Straits of Tiran, so that Egypt could never again threaten Israeli access...