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Harry Truman: “In the event that the changes I recommended to the Congress in March are not effected by statute at this session, then…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1949
In the event that the changes I recommended to the Congress in March are not effected by statute at this session, then those changes which can be put into effect by reorganization plan should be made.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 8 of 1949: Department of Defense.

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