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On March 5, 1949, I recommended to the Congress that the National Security Act of 1947 be amended to strengthen and clarify the position of the Secretary of Defense.

Context

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

07/17/1949

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