Show EWA 0 0 0 vello poses problems roosevelt said 1 forbid times for new record by news analyst and commentator Comment alor washington 1 I forbid said president truman he said it 74 times to the congress while democrats were still in control the score for the republican controlled is not quite complete at this writing every american president is permitted to say he forbids but he has to say it in latin the word is veto of 0 course the congress can say so what right back as they did so emphatically this session in the case of the tail taft hartley labor act but they have to say it two thirds strong a strength they arent always able to muster as history has shown why the founding fathers were so generous with presidential power which they never conceived as expanding to its modern breadth we dont quite know the veto Is written down in roman law but latin I 1 is a a dead language in england the crown has a veto power over p parliament ar I 1 lament but it is almost as dead as queen anne since it been used since her time it seems to have flourished on amer american can soil in n f act W we act ought to call it national veto week house majority leader halleck is lepor reported to have remarked Z when the third presidential ve veto to in one week ot of june bounced back into the lap of the con gress others studying headlines president nixes tax cut truman vetoes vetoe s labor legislation wool bua turned down shook their heads baukhage hage and opined opened that harry S truman was the veto ingest president yet nonsense said capitol old timers harry truman according to the record has been very sparing of 0 his veto and has a long way to go before he attains the really big time veto statistics racked up by pres franklin D roosevelt who had more time than anybody else to ex ercile his thumbs down power grover cleveland the veto runner up and ulysses S grant why the old timers grunt when was president it seemed as if we hid had a veto on something om ething or other almost ev ery day and the record shows that lie he said 1 I 1 forbid or achieved the same end by the pocket method in instances A pocket veto comes about in this way the president has 10 days not including sundays to act on any bill congress sends a bill to him if congress adjourns before the presidents allotted 10 days are up and he still acted on the bill it cannot become a law that Is considered a pocket veto cleveland during his two terms in office used his veto power times and was overridden only twice the majority of 0 the cl cleveland eve vetoes were personal pension bills many based on utterly absurd claims growing out of the civil war at first Clev elands forthright refus refusal a I 1 to permit these myriad lill treasury raids infuriated civil war veterans later however the GAR came cama to consider him its friend ulysses S grant a poor third to roosevelt and cleveland vetoed 92 bills was overridden four times all told the veto power has been used more than 1833 tl times mes by presidents george washington started it off by killing two important sets acts one having to do with ae legislative gisla tive organization another which would have reduced the size of the army he was not overridden there were eight other presidents who never experienced a veto upset by congressional gress fonal action madison monroe J jackson ackson polk buchanan lincoln mckinley and harding on the other hand there were several presidents who scorned the veto entirely john adams jefferson john quincy adams van buren william henry harrison harrison taylor fillmore and garfield perhaps because all was harmonious between e executive becu tive and legislators in those days perhaps because as some students suggest today a sustained veto is a contradiction of the principle of majority rule a rule of a minority of one third of either house plus one plus the president who Is not supposed to have a vote it takes a two thirds vote to kill a veto |