Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush campaign has seized on Dukakis' veto of a 1977 Massachusetts bill requiring teachers to lead their classes in the Pledge of Allegiance to paint the Governor as a dangerous liberal whose concern for civil liberties would undermine American patriotism. "Should public-school teachers be required to lead our children in the Pledge of Allegiance?" Bush asked his audience at the Republican Convention. "My opponent says no -- but I say yes." Then he led the crowd in reciting the pledge, a gesture he repeated at a flag-bedecked political rally last week. The subtext of Bush's profligate pledging...
...Dukakis' veto was overridden by large margins in the legislature, but the state attorney general ruled that the law was "unenforceable." As in most states, the pledge is still recited in Massachusetts elementary schools on a voluntary basis. "Of course, the pledge is taken all the time in Massachusetts," Dukakis said last week. "We take it in ceremonies and everything else. I encourage schoolchildren to say the Pledge of Allegiance . . . That's not the issue, and the Republicans know...
...preserving our freedom. Quayle himself said in his Thursday-night acceptance speech that he is "proud" of his National Guard service, during which he was trained as a welder and then put to work grinding out press releases. The same people who make a big issue of Michael Dukakis' veto of a law requiring people to recite the Pledge of Allegiance -- implying, though never saying, that this casts doubt on Dukakis' patriotism -- insist that it is somehow a cheap shot to ask what Dan Quayle's evasion of combat service in 1969 says about the boisterous hawkish values he professes...
Once in his office, Dukakis took up where he left off before the convention and became immersed in efforts to defuse legislative protests over his use of a line-item veto to bring the state budget into balance...
Meanwhile, at the White House, spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that it is likely President Reagan will veto plant-closing legislation that Dukakis has been making an issue in the presidential campaign...