Harry Truman actually said...

The transfers provided by this plan will relieve the State Department of a number of functions that have no relation to its primary purpose and place them in an agency especially designed for the performance of such activities.

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 20 of 1950.

03/12/1950

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