Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent tenure rejection of Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History Alan Brinkley and what one professor called President Derek C. Bok's "pocket veto" of former Associate Professor of English Robert N. Watson's tenure nomination reveal these major obstacles, professors said...
...Pretoria the government had been getting ready for bad news from Washington for more than a week. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha repeated the conventional argument that if the congressional bill survives the Reagan veto, "it will have a damaging effect on the jobs of many people, black and white. It will harm us, but it will not kill...
...reaction was immediate -- and strong. While some Republicans supported the President's action, most Democrats were outraged. Even before the White House announcement, Representative Mickey Leland of Texas, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, told a rally that Reagan had been waiting "like a thief in the night to veto legislation that clearly has the support of the American people." California Congressman Norman Mineta maintained that neither Congress nor the public would tolerate "this indecent act." Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts declared, "It is sad that the President persists in locking himself into a failed and lonely policy that...
...vote of 308 to 77, the final disposition of the measure may be settled at last. Attention will focus on the Senate, which passed the bill in August by a vote of 84 to 14. To reach the 34 votes necessary to prevent the Senate from overriding Reagan's veto, the White House needed to persuade 20 Senators to change their minds and support the President. At week's end congressional observers thought the President had the support of no more than 28 Senators total, half a dozen short of the number needed to keep the bill from becoming...
...Reagan's veto was supported by some American allies but criticized by others. Like West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was sympathetic to the President's action because she too disapproves of sanctions. The British were enthusiastic about sending Shultz to southern Africa and urged that he meet with Oliver Tambo, president of the outlawed African National Congress, South Africa's leading black political movement. Chester Crocker, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, met with Tambo two weeks ago in London. Other countries, in the meantime, were stepping up their support of sanctions...