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On the recordMay 26, 1947
The essential and important difference between the organization established by the Plan and the pre-war arrangement, to which housing agencies and functions would otherwise automatically revert on the termination of Title I of the First War Powers Act, is that under the old arrangement these agencies and functions were scattered among many different establishments primarily dealing with matters other than housing, whereas under the Plan the major permanent housing programs are placed in a single establishment concerned exclusively with housing.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 3 of 1947.

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