Harry Truman actually said...

It would have set no standards or limits to guide the Administrator except the single provision that he could not set rates of pay lower than those prescribed by the Classification Act.

Context

Memorandum of Disapproval of Bill Relating to Pay Rates in the Veterans Administration.

07/02/1948

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