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Harry Truman: “The effect of this proposal will be to eliminate entirely one agency, whose mission has been substantially accomplished…”

On the recordMay 15, 1946
The effect of this proposal will be to eliminate entirely one agency, whose mission has been substantially accomplished, without appreciably increasing the burden of the Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 1 of 1946.

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