51 years ago today,
Congress voted in a
two thirds majority
to override
President Gerald
Ford's attempted
veto of the
Freedom of
Information Act
strong>,
after he
was influenced to
try the veto by Dick
Cheney and Donald
Rumsfeld. That
decision gave the
country the FOIA
which it still
maintains today, out
of which have come
dozens of the most
high profile
news
stories and
political scandals
in modern American
history. Read more here.