Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, O'Neill tried to blame the Administration for undermining the bill. The White House wanted the Democratic-controlled House to pass it, he asserted, so the President could veto it. That way, Reagan would come across as a hero to Hispanic Americans, and the Democrats as chumps. Was the man in the Oval Office capable of such a cynical trick? "He's the most political man I've seen there," snapped O'Neill...
...admits that he first heard it as dinner gossip, but as evidence, he produced a letter from Attorney General William French Smith to the House Judiciary Committee expressing Administration reservations concerning the House version of the bill. Rumors supposedly emanating from the White House also hinted of a presidential veto...
...Vice President Bush personally delivered the same message to the Speaker. The letter from Smith was described as nothing more than a routine working paper, in effect a bargaining stance for haggling over the bill's particulars. Said the Attorney General: "This in no way amounts to a veto threat." As for the rumors from the White House, they came from a lowly and uninformed aide in the office of Faith Whittlesey, assistant to the President for public liaison...
...raise goes through the legislature--as it is expected to do--and Ducks does not veto the measure, he will seriously harm the partnership that has developed between the state and students on drunk driving. Thus far, both parties have worked together in alerting the public to the dangers and penalties involved. The relationship has been mutually beneficial: the state has had an easier time in its efforts to curb drunk driving and students have an opportunity to have a role in shaping positive policies which to a large extent affect them...
Ducks said in a press conference last week that although he favors keeping the drinking age at 20, he will not oppose the bill or veto it because "there is a considerable public sentiment to raise it." By abandoning his principles in search of a few votes from the "locket up" constituency, Ducks is betraying the college students who he has asked to aid him. It is unfair to ask students to be cooperative with his program when he is staying silent on a measure that severely limits their rights without improving the public safety. Figures convincingly show that raising...