"The activities you have sponsored since the founding in 1917, the advice and counsel you have rendered from your collective experience and wisdom - these have played an important role in building the state of competence in the Federal service. I know I can count on your continued efforts to make the Federal service an even better instrument of our goals: One that will offer the best in terms of challenges and rewards."
President John F. Kennedy to the NFFE Biennial Convention - 1962 |