Moreover, by reducing the likelihood that the two programs involved will be administered at cross-purposes or in conflict with each other, it can be expected that the money expended will achieve greater benefits than would be likely under the present distribution of responsibility.
Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 17 of 1950.
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