Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While they lived, Jefferson and Hamilton had been the bitterest of enemies. Hamilton, who represented the business interests of New York, advocated a strong central government, and more: a strong presidency. At one point, he had even urged that the President be elected for life, with absolute veto power over Congress. The conservative Hamilton mistrusted the electorate and was not above using questionable tactics to shape policies and institutions in ways that would prepare America for the greatness that was-he was sure-its destiny. In contrast, Jefferson, paragon of the Age of Reason and son of the landed gentry...
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Hassan Zayyat, who led the drive to get the resolution to a vote, complained after the U.S. veto that "regardless of what you think is legal ... you will not be able to do anything because no matter what force you have, Israel will be put in a position to frustrate you"-which neatly summed up the stalemate...
...administration which has pledged itself to strict constructionism has seriously compromised itself by indulging in affairs of questionable constitutionality, i.e. impoundment of Congressionally appropriated funds, executive privilege, the pocket veto, the abuse of the war powers in the Cambodian war. The administration should now face the same legal constraints all citizens are expected to live by. Steven Mednick
...chairman of the faculty senate, Richard Axen, said yesterday that "we have had a tradition" in which a faculty-elected committee shares a "mutual veto" with the trustees over presidential appointments, and the faculty's presidential selection committee is allowed to gather data and research candidates...
...veto last March of a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a draft treaty guaranteeing Panama's claim to sovereignty over the Canal Zone. They are miffed, and also a bit puzzled over Nixon's inflexible attitude toward Cuba at a time when the U.S. is actively wooing China and the Soviet Union...