Harry Truman actually said...

The provisions of this Plan are designed to maintain organizational arrangements worked out under authority of Title I of the First War Powers Act.

Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 1 of 1947.

04/30/1947

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The Board shall report to the President in accordance with the provisions of section 206 of the said Act on or before March 19, 1948.

I recommend that the Congress now provide for the liquidation of the temporary arrangements for disposing of surplus war property.

The present arrangements, which have been developed under piecemeal legislation dating as far back as 1870, are inadequate to meet the prese...

The enactment of such legislation will abolish our largest remaining war agency and provide for an orderly liquidation of the present war su...