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Lyndon Johnson: “To do so requires that we achieve comparability with private pay levels--and that we do it in a way which does not…”

On the recordApril 4, 1967
To do so requires that we achieve comparability with private pay levels--and that we do it in a way which does not endanger our unparalleled economic prosperity.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Special Message to the Congress on Federal Pay and Postal Rates.

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