Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress must pass the Hart bill for a judicially appointed special prosecutor answerable only to the courts; if the president vetoes this legislation, Congress must override the veto...
...outbreak of the fighting, Kissinger and Dobrynin have remained in continual contact in Washington. Last week they lunched together, spoke two and three times daily by telephone. The two concentrated mainly on trying to frame a resolution for the U.N. Security Council that would not run into an immediate veto by nations sympathetic to either side and thus harden diplomatic positions. Kissinger and Dobrynin sought a cease-fire resolution that would also create machinery for direct negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The diplomats recognized, of course, that no such resolution would be effective until the combatants were ready...
...votes for our interpretation last July in the Security Council. It was [America's] idea that "constructive ambiguity," a phrase coined by Mr. Eban and borrowed by Mr. John Scali [U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.], was a good thing. [The U.S. cast a veto against the Arabs at that session.] Our intentions are not to occupy Israeli territory or to drive Israel into the sea. We say this not out of any tender love for Israel but because we understand the political reality. We have no policy for Israel's annihilation...
Congressional v. presidential authority is also involved in a suit over a Nixon pocket veto of a medical education bill during a five-day recess in 1970. Senator Edward Kennedy, a co-sponsor of the bill, went to court contending that the pocket veto power was meant for use only when Congress was in adjournment. He recently won in the trial court, and the appeals are now under way. Further in the future, the court may also have to consider whether the President's national security power legally justified the office burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist...
...ever-rising costs of city mass-transit over the next two years. Last week the House approved a similar measure by a vote of 219-195. If the differences between the two versions can be ironed out, the bill will go to the President-for an almost certain veto. Congressional proponents will probably not be able to muster enough votes to override that veto. Result: public transportation in most U.S. cities will remain inadequate...