Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...status of the Holy City. Now, however, momentum is gathering in Congress for a politically motivated, election-year bill that would require the State Department to move its Tel Aviv embassy to Jerusalem. Last week President Ronald Reagan ventured into this tangled debate with an oblique threat to veto the measure. Said he: "Like the several Presidents before me, I think that that is a most unwise thing...
...Bush's group. In my conversation with the President it seemed clear that he had been under the impression that this recommendation reflected the unanimous judgment of his advisers. After telling him that his Secretary of State had not been consulted, I advised him that the U.S. must veto the resolution. Reagan, listening intently, agreed...
...confusion persisted. The State Department back in Washington was still getting conflicting instructions from the NSC. This required another meeting with Clark. Acquiescence if not agreement was reached after a stormy exchange of words. With only minutes to spare, I telephoned Mrs. Kirkpatrick and instructed her to veto the resolution, regardless of any other instructions she may have received...
...prison and the reforms do not occur? The President had already sent a strongly worded letter to Brezhnev over the hot line. Jeane Kirkpatrick, not unnaturally, wished to take the Polish question into the United Nations. I urged the President not to render Western action subject to a Soviet veto in the Security Council, and he accepted my advice. Sanctions against the Soviet Union and the Jaruzelski government, even a total embargo by the West, were discussed. "If Defense has its way," I told my staff, "we'll have the U.S. in a war scare and the Europeans...
...February 8 editorial, "Bring on the Veto," The Crimson called for the Senate to reject Meese's nomination, but noted, "to his credit, Ed Meese's name has not been linked to the sort of sordid activity associated with colleagues like Ann Burford, James Watt, Paul Thayer, Rita Lavelle, Charles Wick or Ray Donovan." But the charges brought against Meese during the recent hearigs clearly qualify him for a choice spot on that list, representing the standard bearers of what former Vice President Walter F. Mondale has aptly termed Reagan's "sleaze factor...