Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small rear guard of New Dealers against the Taft-Hartley labor bill. When the vote came, 17 Democrats joined the Republicans to pass the bill, 54 to 17. The House had already passed it, 320 to 79-plenty of votes, if the lines held, to override a presidential veto...
...Republican Congress was about to thump on to his desk the long-awaited tax and labor bills (see The Congress). The President's decision whether to sign or veto would have a profound effect on the nation's economic and social future-and on Harry Truman's own political fortunes...
...hands of his advisers. Among them: Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellen-bach, Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford. Clifford produced the yardstick for measuring the labor bill: Does it disturb the rights of labor? According to his answer to this question, the President might or might not veto the Taft-Hartley bill...
Taxes were another matter. Harry Truman had put himself solidly on the record against any tax cut at this time. So had John Snyder. Clark Clifford agreed. They could think of several reasons for vetoing: Congress had not yet completed action of major appropriation bills, did not yet know how much revenue it would need; tax cuts now might exert new inflationary pressures; future foreign commitments would probably knock all budget plans into a cocked hat. But tax reduction was a political inflammable, and dangerous to tamper with. Truman's veto of the tax bill might singe his political...
...sharpened one of them still further when negotiations over a new coal contract broke up without results. With such an example before him, the President might well convince himself that the pending bill did not overly disturb the rights of labor. Besides, Congress would probably pass it over his veto. But a tax cut was directly up to Truman. The Republicans did not have the votes to beat a veto there...