Harry Truman actually said...

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.

Context

Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 1 of 1947.

04/30/1947

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