Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passed both Houses the conference bill is now before President Johnson. Although the President has not made public comment, both Willis and Dirksen insist he has personally told them he supports the SACB bill. In 1950, as a member of the Senate, Johnson voted to override President Truman's veto of the Internal Security...
After the plans for the program are completed, the residents of the model neighborhood will be able to veto them in a referendum. If the plans are approved, it wil take some eight to ten years to carry out the program...
...years since Congress adopted the anti-Communist McCarran act over a presidential veto, the law's provisions have been systematically chipped away by the Supreme Court. Last week the court filed the act's last remaining fangs almost to the vanishing point...
...just about everyone, De Gaulle naturally succeeded in evoking outrage around the globe. Prime Minister Harold Wilson told a cheering House of Commons that "we have slammed down our application on the table. There it is and there it remains." But in the face of so vehement a second veto, Britain may eventually have to come around to accepting some form of transitional association with the Common Market until De Gaulle is gone. Prime Minister Lester Pearson of Canada angrily denounced the general's "intervention" in Canadian domestic policies as "unacceptable" and "intolerable." Said Pearson: "I believe the statement...
...Organization of American States will probably be made in an atmosphere of sweet compromise next January. But the bitter battles over Ritter have been a testing ground for the small member-states of the Western Hemisphere. They may have welded themselves into a bloc which could achieve veto power over OAS policy, especially if more Carribean states join. Jamaica reportedly is moving to join the OAS. It will add one more to this new force in hemisphere politics...