Harry Truman actually said...

Since then I have several times proposed that the Federal Security Agency be made an executive department.

Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 1 of 1949 Establishing a Department of Welfare.

06/19/1949

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In this last year the men and women of our country have given over a million pints of blood through the Red Cross.

The commission shall be deemed to be established as of February 9, 1952.

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By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered that section 6 of the said Executive Order No. 1031...