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Eisenhower: “I am instructing the Director of the Bureau of the Budget and my Advisory Committee on Government Organization, in…”

On the recordApril 16, 1955
I am instructing the Director of the Bureau of the Budget and my Advisory Committee on Government Organization, in connection with their general responsibilities for advising me on Executive Branch organization, to give close attention to the new organizational arrangements and to recommend such organizational improvements as will be considered appropriate.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Letter to Secretary Dulles Regarding Transfer of the Affairs of the Foreign Operations Administration to the Department of State

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