Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both crises up to the United Nations. Since its inception he has been a strong advocate of the U.N. and wishes it were more effective. He was one of two Republicans President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 sent to the first organizational meeting of the U.N. and argued against the veto power enjoyed by powerful countries...
Nitze was interested in drawing Kvitsinsky out to see if the Soviets might be willing to raise above zero the number of U.S. weapons permitted. For the West, this was a crucial point: the U.S. has never accepted the idea that the Soviets could veto any NATO deployments. Nitze probed further at a reception at the Soviet embassy a few days later. "Is there room in here for a reduction, say, of 472 that would leave us with 100 weapons on our side?" he asked. "No," Kvitsinsky tersely replied. "It is 572 or nothing." Nitze's response: "Under those circumstances...
...Undergraduate Council's proposed Grateful Dead concert now has financial backing and requires only the approval of the administration. I urge the Undergraduate Council to reconsider the concert and to forget the whole idea. If the Council does not come to its senses, I hope that Dean Epps will veto the proposal. There are two major problems with the concert proposal...
...House of Representatives before he left Washington that would severely restrict the sale of Japanese cars in the U.S. The bill, said Reagan, is "a cruel hoax. It would be raising prices without protecting jobs." In the unlikely event that the bill passes the Senate, Reagan has vowed to veto...
...American military commitment. The War Powers Resolution does not adequately address this question: indeed, it restricts the President too much. It has been ignored and or maligned by three of the four Presidents who have had to deal with it. The Supreme Court's overturning of the "legislative veto" earlier this year indicates it might also strike down the Resolution. Thus the balance in our government concerning war powers is tilted against the Congress at present. As a result, they should take prompt action on their own initiative to revise the Resolution, and possibly even completely restructure and change...