Harry Truman actually said...

The enactment of legislation in derogation of these firmly established principles would, in my opinion, create a most undesirable precedent

Memorandum of Disapproval of Bill Relating to a Claim of the Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas.

09/27/1950

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In approving this bill, I issued a statement expressing certain reservations with regard to its provisions.

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I am requesting that they be submitted to me by October 15, 1952.

I have further stated that tax concessions are in themselves a basically unsound means of assisting the maritime industry.