Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overnight Raise. Since winning the nomination, Kennedy has dispelled the double view of himself. He is running strongly liberal. He has told labor that its goals are his goals, he has told the depressed areas that they have been robbed of their due by an Eisenhower veto, he has told schoolteachers that the Republicans are responsible for run-down school buildings and low teacher salaries. He took hold of an attack on his religion led by the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale and turned it into an asset with his courageous question-and-answer session with the Houston ministers...
...drawer of Information Minister Louis Terrenoire lies the draft of a bill giving the government a total veto over the editorial columns of the French press. Private protests to De Gaulle (as well, perhaps, as De Gaulle's own sense of a free press's rights) have so far prevented the bill's being offered to the Assembly. But last week, as critics of De Gaulle and the Algerian war grew more vociferous, the drawer was half open...
...called for a crash program for Polaris and Minuteman missiles, a jet airlift for the country's conventional armed forces. Judging by applause, the Legion rated Jack Kennedy as its third choice-behind J. Edgar Hoover and Dick Nixon, who made headlines with a speech proposing a U.S. veto of any future admission of Red China to the United Nations and an economic "quarantine" of Castro's Cuba (next day, as if by prearrangement, the State Department ordered a U.S. embargo on shipments to Cuba-see THE HEMISPHERE...
Round 2 was the August rump session of Congress. Kennedy and Johnson were outmaneuvered by Eisenhower's veto threats and outvoted by a coalition of Northern Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats. When the session ended, Candidate Kennedy had a look of failure and ineptness upon...
...took all Debre's persuasiveness to calm the Chancellor down. What De Gaulle meant, he argued, was that he did not want to start a war and was asking for a French veto to be sure no one else did. If the West was attacked, naturally there would not be time to invoke a veto, and De Gaulle was not asking for such a privilege...