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On the recordAugust 14, 1989
Your careful monitoring of agency activities and your diligence in investigating possible improprieties is essential both in ensuring that employees adhere to scrupulous standards and in ascertaining the facts and seeing that justice is done when employees fall short of proper conduct.
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Memorandum on Ethics in Government

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