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Harry Truman: It would leave the Government without effective machinery for the coordination and supervision of its housing activities…

On the recordMay 26, 1947
It would leave the Government without effective machinery for the coordination and supervision of its housing activities and would thrust upon the Chief Executive an impossible burden of administrative supervision.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 3 of 1947.

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