I cannot approve the provisions of the enrolled bill which would enable a very limited number of Federal employees to engage in partisan political activities, a privilege denied to all other Federal employees by the Hatch Act.
Veto of Bill Regulating the Election of Delegates From the District of Columbia to National Political Conventions.
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For over six decades we have worked together to create and maintain strong democratic institutions.
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
We shall eventually have a world in which all men are brothers, and in which the outstretched hand is not that of a tyrant, but the hand of friendship.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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