Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue becomes more complex when one recalls President Nixon's veto message of last June in which he stressed the need to decentralize public broadcasting decisions. In June, the Johnson appointees on CBB still ran a low-keyed operation. But since October, when Loomis took over, there has been move toward centralization of CPB's power over public broadcasting...
...many other ways, Dean has influenced White House policy. He worked out the legal basis for the President's impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress and his broad use of the pocket veto. He drafts all Executive orders and prepares legal opinions for the President on many matters. A cautious, loyal follower of orders, he is totally trusted by the President. Unlike many a Cabinet member or White House aide, Dean has easy, frequent and direct access to the boss. Since the Gray hearings began, Dean has refused to be interviewed or photographed by the press...
...dismay, this move won the support of 13 of the 15 delegates (Briiain abstained). Scali, who argued that the soverignty question was a bilateral matter between the U.S. and Panama and therefore beyond the U.N.'s purview, finally raised his right hand and cast the third U.S. veto in its 27 years in the United Nations...
What now? Bilateral talks between Panama and the U.S. will probably continue. But veto or no, Panamanians felt that they had got the better of the Yanquis. Said Foreign Minister Juan Tack jubilantly: "The U.S. vetoed the resolution, but the world vetoed...
...grunt, I feel a certain churlish resentment about the solicitous attention the returning P.O.W.s are receiving. It seems to me that the draftees who faced the war 24 hours every day on the ground are deserving of somewhat more than a veto of the VA hospital appropriations bill and a dismal employment rate. Why were we sneaked back into pur society? So our country can more easily forget the crimes we committed in its name...