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Harry Truman: The expenditures of the Commission shall be paid out of an allotment made by the President from the appropriation…

On the recordDecember 28, 1951
The expenditures of the Commission shall be paid out of an allotment made by the President from the appropriation entitled 'Emergency Fund for the President, National Defense'.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Executive Order 10317—Establishing the President's Commission of the Health Needs of the Nation

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