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.
List of United States presidential vetoes - Wikipedia. A regular veto is where the president sends the bill back to congress without signing it and with a statement of objections to the bill. He must do this within ten days of getting the bill, else it becomes law if congress is still in session.