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I may have said this before, more vetoes by a president of the United States
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than all previous American presidents put together.
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You could call this a constitutional crisis; it was--
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You could call it a breakdown in federalism.
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You could call it whatever you want.
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But it's government by veto and override of veto.
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Every time A.J. vetoed a Reconstruction Act,
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Congress, in its two-thirds majority, Republicans in both houses,
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overrode his veto.
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We've never had a government operate like this,
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with this many vetoes, an override of vetoes,
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in such a concentrated period of time.