Dear Mr. Fowler: I am pleased to know, from your conversation with Acting Defense Mobilizer Steelman, of your willingness to assume the post of Administrator of the Defense Production Administration effective June 1, 1952, succeeding Mr. Manly Fleischmann.
Harry Truman: “Dear Mr. Fowler: I am pleased to know, from your conversation with Acting Defense Mobilizer Steelman, of your…”
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Letter to Henry H. Fowler on His Assumption of the Post of Administrator of the Defense Production Administration.
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