Harry Truman actually said...

They should be enacted in order that the Federal Government may assume the leadership.

Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union

01/04/1949

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I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of Jul...

The National Board shall be in all respects independent of the Director of Selective Service

This order shall become effective as of midnight, September 30, 1948.

Each registrant between the ages of 19 and 26 will be considered as available for military service until his status in a deferred or exempt ...