AP News, May 1st, 2007
Before his showdown with Congress on the Iraq war spending bill, President Bush had issued just one veto, on a measure to lift restrictions on federal money for embryonic stem cell research. A look at the vetoes of other presidents over the past eight decades:
_Bill Clinton (1993-2001), 37 vetoes, two overridden.
_George H.W. Bush (1989-93), 44 vetoes, one overridden.
_Ronald Reagan (1981-89), 78 vetoes, nine overridden.
_Jimmy Carter (1977-81) 31 vetoes, two overridden.
_Gerald Ford (1974-77) 66 vetoes, 12 overridden.
_Richard Nixon (1969-74), 43 vetoes, seven overridden.
_Lyndon Johnson (1963-69), 30 vetoes, none overridden.
_John F. Kennedy (1961-63), 21 vetoes, none overridden.
_Dwight Eisenhower (1953-61), 181 vetoes, two overridden.
_Harry Truman (1945-53), 250 vetoes, 12 overridden.
_Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45), 635 vetoes, nine overridden.
