03/05/1979
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"My goal is that at the end of the following fiscal year, in October, on October 1 of 1978, that we would have no more employees in the Federal Government than we had in October of 1976."
"I estimate that this plan and the other steps I am taking will reduce staff levels in the EOP by about 250, from 1,712 full-time permanent positions to about 1,460 and will save the taxpayers at least..."
"Public Law 95-66"
"A joint resolution to provide for the designation of a week as 'National Lupus Week'"