The President's News Conference
08/10/1949
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I am concerned that the program outlined above be initiated at the earliest practicable date.
It is an office that is without parallel in the history of the world.
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 91 of the act of April 30, 1900, 31 Stat. 159, as ame...
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