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United States General Accounting Office
        Washington, D.C.  20548

                          FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                          EXPECTED AT 10:00 A.M. est
                          WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1979


                        STATEMENT OF

                        ALLEN R. VOSS

           DIRECTOR, GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION

                         BEFORE THE

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT SUBCOMMITTEE /

                           OF THE

                 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                     UNITED STATES SENATE

            ON rjiENDITURES FOR FORMER PRESIDENT

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We are pleased to be here today to discuss the results

of our recent audit of expenditures under the Former

Presidents Act and our recommendations to amend the Former

Presidents Act and the Presidential Transition Act.

HISTORY OF THE FORMER PRESIDENTS ACT

     With the passage of the Former Presidents Act of 1958,

the Congress sought to provide former Presidents with

(1) retirement benefits; (2) office space; (3) office staff;

and (4) franking privileges, as well as to create continuing

statutory authority for benefits for the widows of former

Presidents. The rationale for providing these benefits

was primarily to assure the dignity of the Office of the     .
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