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.
Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 8 of 1949: Department of Defense.
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I am glad that the Bill of Rights is at last to be exhibited side by side with the Constitution.
It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.
We have discovered that the Constitution does not prevent us from correcting social injustice, or advancing the general welfare.
The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.
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