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Harry Truman: I recommend the enactment of legislation which would permit the posthumous appointment of the late Lieutenant General…

On the recordDecember 28, 1950
I recommend the enactment of legislation which would permit the posthumous appointment of the late Lieutenant General Walton H. Walker to the grade of General in the Army of the United States.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Recommending the Posthumous Appointment of General...

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