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Harry Truman: It is my personal wish, and that of Acting Defense Mobilizer Steelman, that you occupy the Defense Production…

On the recordMay 6, 1952
It is my personal wish, and that of Acting Defense Mobilizer Steelman, that you occupy the Defense Production Administration post simultaneously with the position you now occupy as Administrator of the National Production Authority in the Department of Commerce.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Letter to Henry H. Fowler on His Assumption of the Post of Administrator of the Defense Production Administration.

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