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To correct this problem, I am transmitting to the Congress today legislation which would raise the salaries of those in the lowest three levels of the Executive Schedule and thereby permit a significant increase in the salaries of those in the highest grades of the General Schedule.

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Special Message to the Congress Proposing Salary Increases in the Executive Schedule

05/06/1974

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