Harry Truman actually said...

By virtue of an pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 4 of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 (44 Stat. 570), the airspace above the following-described portion of the United States is hereby reserved and set apart for national defense and other governmental purposes as an airspace reservation within which no person shall navigate an aircraft except by authority of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

Context

Executive Order 10291—Establishing an Airspace Reservation Over the Savannah River Plant of the United States Atomic Energy...

09/24/1951

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