The Historic Gettysburg Address. On the morning of November 19, Everett delivered his two-hour oration (from memory) on the Battle of Gettysburg and its significance, and the orchestra played a hymn composed for the occasion by B.B. French. Lincoln then rose to the podium and addressed the crowd of some 15,000 people.
The line-item veto gave the president the power to veto specific parts of an appropriations bill. This power, however, was short lived and only lasted from 1996 until 1998 after it was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1 Veto â a power granted to the head of the executive branch that allows him or her to nullify a law passed by the legislative branch. 2  The president of the United States is the head of the executive branch in the federal government. 3  Override â a power granted to the legislative branch that nullifies a presidential veto.