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.
Letter to House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford on a Proposed Federal Pay Raise.
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This was a serious act of omission for which I take full responsibility and which I deeply regret.
This country needs good farmers, good businessmen, good plumbers, good carpenters.
And as I leave, let me say, that is an example I think all of us should remember.
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