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Harry Truman: “Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman,President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the…”

On the recordNovember 29, 1949
Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman,President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including the said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do proclaim as follows:
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Proclamation 2865—Supplementing the Proclamations of December 16, 1947, and January 1, 1948, Carrying Out the General...

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