Richard Nixon actually said...

I must frankly advise that our critically important national effort to contain inflation is bound to be seriously undercut if the federal employee pay bill now before the House were to become law.

Context

Letter to House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford on a Proposed Federal Pay Raise.

10/13/1969

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