10/18/1974
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"I have decided that I must choose the 5.52 percent increase, without the additional 1.7 percent."
"Let us give them personal help and encouragement."
"The Civil Service Commission shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this order."
"The overriding need of the nation at present is clearly to dampen the fires of inflation."