The President's News Conference
08/10/1949
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By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 426(c) of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, as amended (Public Law 67, 82nd Congress), i...
I extend to your Commission and its staff my thanks and congratulations for the public service you have rendered.
They are absolutely vital to our whole defense plan.
We urgently need the air bases and depots and other installations that are covered by the House bill.