This plan is designed to make urgently needed changes in the administration of the National Military Establishment and other agencies created by the National Security Act of 1947.
Harry Truman: “This plan is designed to make urgently needed changes in the administration of the National Military Establishment and…”
On the recordJuly 17, 1949
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Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 8 of 1949: Department of Defense.
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