Harry Truman actually said...

I have recently given considerable attention to the question of the appropriate organization of the executive branch for civil defense.

Memorandum on Civil Defense Planning.

03/03/1949

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I am not ready to discuss the measures yet, because they have not been thoroughly thrashed out.

We will eventually make it.

I have got too much to do to be thinking about anything but the work of the President at the present time.

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