Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Which took me back. I embraced Washington passionately for two months this summer; the strip mine veto, Stanley Hathaway, the monthly unemployment figures, the New Hampshire election, you name them, they were all incredibly vital to me. I read incessantly, argued loudly, reasoned occasionally, all hectically. Then I went home, and put my mind out to pasture. But here was my grandmother, who thought I was an expert on these political things because I always agreed with her at the dining room table while all the aunts and uncles were grinning and clucking about how silly an old lady...
After Congress in July rejected the White House proposal for phased decontrol the President vowed to veto a congressional bill that provided for a six-month extension of present price controls, due to expire on Aug. 31. That action would have plunged the nation into abrupt decontrol, with definite inflationary dangers. Faced with that prospect, late last week both the Administration and its Democratic opponents abruptly pulled back from the brink...
...Vetoes. The U.S., Moynihan explained, was ready to vote for the admission of both Viet Nams and of South Korea. But the Communists and such left-leaning but nonaligned members of the council as Iraq and Tanzania blocked South Korea's application from even being included on the agenda. U.S. policymakers were outraged, and the upshot was Moynihan's two vetoes. Never before had the U.S. used the veto to block a membership application.* The U.S., said Moynihan, "will have nothing to do with selective universality, a principle which in practice admits only new members acceptable to totalitarian...
Vacationing on the green slopes of Vail, Colo., President Ford ended last week what suspense remained in the seven-month-long battle between the White House and Congress over oil price controls. He will veto, said the President, the six-month extension of the controls that Congress has passed and will officially send to him by month's end. If his veto is upheld, as previous ones have been, controls will end on Aug. 31, and the 60% of U.S.-produced oil that has been held to $5.25 per bbl. will be free to rise. The Administration hopes...
...imported crude and a 60?-per-bbl. fee on foreign refined products. That will cut the selling price of foreign oil to American consumers from its present $14.50 per bbl. and in effect lower the market ceiling toward which domestic oil prices could rise. If Congress overrides his veto of the controls extension, Ford has threatened to reinstate the tariff...