The Plan has a two-fold objective, to provide for more orderly transition from war to peacetime operation and to supplement my previous actions looking toward the termination of wartime legislation.
Harry Truman: “The Plan has a two-fold objective, to provide for more orderly transition from war to peacetime operation and to…”
On the recordApril 30, 1947
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Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 1 of 1947.
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