Answer: The power of the President to refuse to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevent its enactment into law is the veto. The president has ten days (excluding Sundays) to sign a bill passed by Congress. ... This veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
Joseph Goldhagens article on the holocaust. You could read a memoir of an SS officer called the death dealer the ss officer was the commander of aushwitz
