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Harry Truman: The enactment of such legislation will abolish our largest remaining war agency and provide for an orderly liquidation…

On the recordMarch 4, 1948
The enactment of such legislation will abolish our largest remaining war agency and provide for an orderly liquidation of the present war surplus disposal program.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress on the Need for a Modern System for the Management of Government Property.

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