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Harry Truman: “This Government is rich enough to pay its employees an adequate salary, and they ought to do it.”

On the recordJune 6, 1945
This Government is rich enough to pay its employees an adequate salary, and they ought to do it.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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