The President's News Conference
03/30/1949
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I am transmitting herewith for the attention of the Congress the first Annual Report of the Federal Civil Defense Administration.
I was answering to the point of the welfare of the country, and that's what's at stake.
Instead the Congress provided only $75 million.
I requested the labor unions not to strike, back in November; and for 99 days they tried to negotiate and get an answer.