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On the recordSeptember 1, 1976
It would be detrimental to the efficiency of the civil service, as well as contrary to the national interest, precipitously to employ aliens in the competitive service without an appropriate determination that it is in the national interest to do so.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Letter to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate on Citizenship Requirements for Federal Employment.

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