Harry Truman actually said...

I have recommended to the Civil Service Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives early and favorable action on pending measures to increase such schedules by approximately 7 percent.

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Message to the Congress Transmitting the First Annual Report of the Civil Service Commission Under the Classification Act of...

07/18/1951

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