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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
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.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 8 of 1949: Department of Defense.

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