Harry Truman actually said...

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.

Context

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

05/15/1946

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