How Powerful Is The President's Veto?
Civics 101
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The President's Veto of the Freeman's Bureau Act
Veto gives the president some influence, but it also gives the legislature a place at the white house bargaining table. Johnson's successful vetoof this legislation condemned the united states to another contry where african americans were second class citizens. Will in that case, clearly, the lawmakers in president johnson's own party were alined with him on that particular veto. He essentially said that formerly enslaved black Americans shouldn't get the help that white people in poverty never had.
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