Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against business interests and the costs of protective measures that were often too heedlessly demanded by ecological crusaders. The Administration supported the SST, more offshore oil drilling, and fought some air and water cleanup proposals made by Democratic Senators. Nixon's credibility on environmental issues was hurt by his veto of a really rigorous, and expensive, $24.7 billion bill to clean up the nation's waters by 1985. Congress overrode the veto, but whether Nixon will spend the money is in doubt...
...visceral resentment as well as admiration. Better to cool it in the Senate and prove his capacity for leadership by fighting for legislation like his national health-insurance bill. The fact that Congress remains in the hands of Democrats will provide him with a platform, and if a presidential veto blocks a measure that he sponsors, so much the better for projecting the Senator as his party's spokesman. He can also score points off Republicans by pushing his judiciary subcommittee's investigation of the Watergate episode and other campaign sabotage...
...simple, but it also has disadvantages. For example, a U.S. businessman angling for a huge order for combine harvesters at first found officials of the Agriculture Ministry eager to buy. Then abruptly they stalled on discussions, and the executive later learned that the Agriculture people unhappily bowed to the veto of another ministry, which claimed that the machinery should be Soviet built. Unfortunately, in the Russians' closed-door society there is no way for Americans to argue against such hierarchical fiats...
Nixon told his Nassau County audience what he had told the press earlier in the day: that he had some "bad news" for the "big spenders" in Congress who had not only ignored his demand last month for executive veto power over the Federal budget, but had also "jammed through" social welfare legislation which put the budget well over the $250 billion ceiling Nixon had demanded...
...sometimes tend to ignore the price of their proposals-the President had few supporters. His own environmental administrator, William D. Ruckelshaus, had pointed out that the money could be spent over several years and urged Nixon to approve the legislation. Congressional Democrats spoke vehemently. Senator Edmund Muskie saw the veto primarily as a gesture in support of industrial polluters, and Senator George McGovern said the Administration's whole record on pollution was one of "hypocritical platitudes coupled with spineless inaction." Within two hours of the veto message, the Senate overrode the President by a vote...