Harry Truman actually said...

The Secretary of the Interior, acting through such agency or agencies of the Department of the Interior as he shall designate, is authorized and directed to wind up the affairs of the Administration.

Context

Executive Order 9718—Termination of the Petroleum Administration for War

05/02/1946

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