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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We can no longer defer the necessary corrective measures or continue the existing lack of standards;”

On the recordFebruary 19, 1962
We can no longer defer the necessary corrective measures or continue the existing lack of standards;
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Special Message to the Congress on Federal Pay Reform.

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