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Eisenhower: “Enactment of the bill would constitute a gratuity and would create a dangerous precedent which might set in motion a…”

On the recordAugust 30, 1954
Enactment of the bill would constitute a gratuity and would create a dangerous precedent which might set in motion a chain of endless requests for the payment of damages by the Government arising out of accidents in which law enforcement officers may have been remotely involved.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Memorandum of Disapproval of Bill for the Relief of S. H. Prather, Mrs. Florence Prather Penman, and S. H. Prather, Jr.

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