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    "ocrText": "file\nCONPIDENTII\nFOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY\nmisc\nDetermined to bo WARK tive Marking\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nD Alom\nDate 11/19/81 By\nWASHINGTON\nDecember 31, 1976\nJune\nMEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT\nFROM:\nJIM CANNON\nSUBJECT:\nComments by Jim Wright\nRepresentative Jim Wright mentioned, after I notified\nhim today of your Puerto Rico announcement, that he\nwould like to convey this message to you:\nI.\nHe talked with Governor Carter on Wednesday night\nabout the Peterson Commission Report on pay increases.\nCarter said he believed that some increase was appro-\npriate but he had not studied the report in detail.\nIn addition, Carter said that he felt that any\nincrease of more than 40 percent would be perceived\nby the public as excessive and would make it difficult\nfor the new administration to hold the line against\ninflationary increases in government and the private\nsector.\nII. Governor Carter also said that he was not going\nto say or do anything to \"sandbag President Ford\"\non his proposals. Wright quoted Carter as saying:\n\"The President has been too nice to me for me to\ndo anything like that.\nIII. Representative David Obey and Lee Hamilton have\npromised Wright that they will have substantive\nrecommendations to reform and strengthen Congressional\nethical standards by February 10.\nIV. Wright has talked with his colleagues in the House\nand concluded that if the pay issue does come to\na vote on the floor of the House, it would be\nrejected.\nFORD"
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