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On the recordOctober 10, 1962
Congress has now enacted legislation ... to provide pay scales more nearly to the level of those prevailing in the private economy.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Memorandum on Manpower Controls and Utilization in the Executive Branch.

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