Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principle of accountability involves, for Bundy, a massive contradiction. If the public truly does become an efficient watchdog over the Executive, this would mean that the initial impulse for social change would always have to come from the masses themselves. Bundy's implied judgment-- that giving a veto power to the public would mean the end of all social action-- is clearly correct, given the present level of social awareness of the American people...
...year. Despite this generous offer, the F.E.A. insisted that the funds would not provide any real improvement in classroom conditions; too much of the new tax money, the association says, was earmarked for noneducational expenses. The argument is probably academic, since Kirk has threatened to veto the bill because it calls for the new taxes without any provision for approval by voters. As expected, the teachers walked...
...planned and assigned by a special International Commission, perhaps under the aegis of the United Nations, utilizing contributions from nations like Ireland, Sweden, and Ethiopia with experience in peace-keeping functions as well as the International Control Commission--beefed up and with greater authority, equipment, and without a paralyzing veto system...
...effect has been to give the Poles a virtual veto on all ICC actions of consequence. The Commission cannot follow up a complaint without Polish approval, and once it gets into the field, a Pole dissent can sabotage its efforts...
...nearly 48 hours after Lindsay's veto, the impasse persisted, and 20,000 more tons of garbage piled up in the city's streets. While Lindsay enjoyed considerable moral support for his stand, the city's three major daily papers attacked Rockefeller. Even the New York Times, normally a Rockefeller supporter, flayed the Governor in uncharacteristically harsh terms, indicting him for "sabotage," "appeasement," "bad politics and bad government...