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...measure, a $225 million authorization for the training of family physicians, was passed overwhelmingly by both houses of Congress. Nixon, who objected to the bill on the ground that it would cost too much money, failed to sign it. By the deadline tenth day, Congress had recessed for a five-day Christmas holiday. Nixon then claimed that the bill...
...been vetoed in this fashion were usually not vital to the national welfare. But Kennedy considered his own bill to be a major undertaking. In addition, Nixon had vetoed the bill in the course of a very brief recess. "If the pocket veto can be applied to a five-day adjournment," argued Kennedy, "why should it not apply to an adjournment of three days or one day or even overnight? At stake is nothing less than an opportunity to take a stand against one aspect of the continuing erosion of congressional power...
...wages up at an inflationary pace this year. A strong indication of labor's mood: the United Mine Workers, representing 110,000 members who dig 75% of the nation's soft coal, plans to shut down all unionized mines throughout this week. Officially, the closing is a five-day "memorial period," called by U.M.W. President Arnold Miller to commemorate the 100,000 coal miners killed on the job in this century. But Miller's intention is to give the nation a reminder of how seriously the U.M.W. could cripple segments of the economy, especially the steel...
...U.M.W.'s unusual contract permits the "memorial" shutdown; in fact, it allows ten days for memorial closedowns during the life of the pact. Thus Miller can and probably will call another five-day "memorial" walkout in the middle of bargaining, and the nation could lose considerable coal output, even without an official strike. The coal industry's bargaining arm, the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, tried to talk the U.M.W. out of the shutdown, contending that it will cost miners and other employees $25 million in wages and $7 million in royalty payments to the union's welfare...
Stepping up the tempo, the Rodino committee for the first time put in a full five-day week of deliberation. Long criticized for its slow pace and three-day weeks, the committee suddenly came under opposing fire from the White House for its haste. The President's special counsel, Dean Burch, assailed the committee as "a partisan lynch mob" acting under orders from the Democratic "hierarchy" of the Congress. Chairman Rodino came under intense personal criticism after Los Angeles Times Reporter Jack Nelson indirectly quoted him as saying in an informal chat with three newsmen (Rodino thought...