Richard Nixon actually said...
I propose an additional pay increase of 8% for postal employees, effective immediately upon enactment of the reorganization law, with prompt collective bargaining over pay schedules under which the time required for rank and file postal employees to reach the top pay step in their respective labor grades would be compressed to not more than eight years.
Context
Special Message to the Congress Recommending Postal Reorganization and Pay Legislation
04/15/1970