Veto of Railroad Retirement Benefits Legislation
10/11/1974
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That is an all-time record for a President.
I can tell you without any hesitation or qualification that the military capability of the United States today is unsurpassed, period.
I call upon the Governors of the fifty States to issue similar proclamations.
Congress, in the 1975 fiscal year budget for the Defense Department, imposed a 26,000 cut in civilian employment across the military install...