The President's News Conference
06/29/1949
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Since I have just approved a bill increasing salaries for persons covered by the Classification Act by $330 per year, the authority granted ...
I AM withholding my approval from S. 2794, an act 'To authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to prescribe the rates of pay for cer...
This bill is contrary to the most important principle on which our entire public assistance program is based--relief of need.
The capacity of many low-income States to contribute out of their own funds to the support of the blind has already been reached.