"Since the principal purpose of the National Security Council and the National Security Resources Board is to advise and assist the President and their work needs to be coordinated to the fullest degre..."
"The creation of a Department of Welfare is long overdue."
"The creation of a Department of Welfare represents a sound and much needed step in the improvement of Federal organization."
"In this they play a role similar in character to that of the various units of the Executive Office of the President."
"In my judgment, this course has been fundamentally unsound and should be reversed."
"The wisdom of this step has been demonstrated by greatly improved staff assistance to the President, which has contributed importantly to the management of the Government during the trying years of wa..."
"This plan is a major step in the rebuilding and strengthening of the Department of Labor which I am convinced is essential to the sound and efficient organization of the executive branch of the Govern..."
"This plan, therefore, will bring their legal status into accord with existing administrative practice."
"Since then I have several times proposed that the Federal Security Agency be made an executive department."
"I have long been convinced that the Department of Labor is the agency which can contribute most to the development of sound and efficient employment service."
"In fact, many of the problems with which they deal require close collaboration with the agencies of the Executive Office."
"The primary result of this reorganization plan will be more effective administration."
"Experience has demonstrated that unemployment insurance must be administered in close relationship with employment service and other employment programs."
"The plan transfers the National Security Council and the National Security Resources Board to the Executive Office of the President."
"The plan gives the Postmaster General the necessary authority to organize and control his department by transferring to him the functions of all subordinate officers and agencies of the Post Office De..."
"I transmit herewith Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1949, prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949."
"Since the creation of the Executive Office of the President, however, the Congress has further recognized the need for more adequate central staff and created two new important staff agencies to assis..."
"The primary function of the first of these agencies, as defined by statute, is 'to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to the nati..."
