Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There he made his decision: veto. This week he so informed Congress. He recommended that it study permanent labor legislation, but gave not one hint of what he wanted. He also gave Congress six months to bring in a bill-well beyond the November elections...
Decision. Harry Truman ignored the senatorial advice. But he listened to his political henchmen-to National Chairman Bob Hannegan and Crony George Allen. Politician Hannegan argued that a veto would salvage some vestige of the labor support the President had lost when he rushed to Congress with his own draft-strikers measure on "Black Saturday." At week's end, in Washington's 90° heat, the President called off plans for a cruise, toted a briefcase full of reports to the White House living quarters...
Economic Stabilizer Bowles called the bill "an outright fraud . . . a monstrous thing" and promised to ask for a presidential veto if the bill passed in its present state. C.I.O. President Philip Murray sounded an ominous warning of new outbreaks of labor unrest...
...veto will force the Congress to act quickly. With only ten working days left before the agency expires on June 30, Presidential courage will force the boys on the Hill to pass a simple resolution extending OPA without crippling change. The Solons obviously do not dare let OPA die completely; rent controls, for example, are not so much as touched in either House or Senate bill. The time for haggling is growing short, and a ringing Presidential veto message will throw the blame and the responsibility exactly where they belong-in the spacious laps of a captious Congress...
...himself to follow that line. He knew exactly what he wanted to do; he was not swayed by emotion. With his colleague Joe Ball he hammered out the bill he wanted-by no means a perfect bill, but a reasonable one which Harry Truman might find it hard to veto...