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...last clerks laid three bills on the table in the centre of the room. The President sat down, put aside his cigar, signed the Veterans Pension Act, the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act. He had won legislative victories on all three. Then he said: "Good night, gentlemen," and returned to the White House...
...secure adjournment the Senate had to humble itself before the President and the House on World War pension legislation (see p. 17) and cash for the National Law Enforcement Commission. With the House marking time for the Senate to catch up, Congressmen packed into the Senate chamber to watch the final riotous scenes there, to hear hostile Senators shout and roar their political hatred of the Hoover Administration...
...Consolidated the Veterans Bureau, the Pension Bureau and the National Home for Disabled Veterans into a new Veterans Administration...
...most repugnant tasks is to disapprove measures intended to benefit our sick and disabled men. . . . But I want a square deal between veterans-not unjust discriminations between special groups, and I do not want wasteful or unnecessary expenditures. . . . This measure is a radical departure . . . into the field of pension to men who have incurred disabilities . . . having no valid relation to their military service. . . . The legal 'presumption' [of War disability up to 1930] is not a physical possibility and constitutes a wholly false and fictitious basis for legislation in veterans...
Veto Sustained. Without a moment's hesitation the House sustained (188-to-182) the President's veto and just 40 minutes later passed (365-10-4) and sent to the Senate a substitute pension bill which it knew President Hoover would approve...