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Harry Truman: “It strikes me as particularly unfair to Federal employees and to those who were heard in Congress on their behalf, to…”

On the recordApril 24, 1952
It strikes me as particularly unfair to Federal employees and to those who were heard in Congress on their behalf, to remove the accumulation privilege and thus deprive these employees of their fair consideration for the cutback in the amount of leave earned.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Letter to Senator Maybank on Vacation Leave Privileges of Federal Employees.

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