Harry Truman actually said...

I have today approved H.R. 6022, 'to increase the rates of compensation of certain employees of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans Administration, and for other purposes.'

Context

Special Message to the Congress Upon Signing Bill To Raise the Pay of Certain Employees of the Veterans Administration.

10/11/1949

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