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Harry Truman: Any legislation to increase public assistance payments should take account of the relationship between those payments…

On the recordJuly 17, 1951
Any legislation to increase public assistance payments should take account of the relationship between those payments and the amounts paid under our old age and survivors insurance system.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Letter to the President of the Senate on a Pending Bill To Increase Public Assistance Payments.

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