Harry Truman

No person can be harmed in any way by furnishing the information required.

The sole purpose of the Census is to secure general statistical information regarding the population, its characteristics, its homes, and its farms.

I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby set apart the month of April 1950 as Cancer Control Month.

I also invite the Governors of the States, Territories, and possessions of the United States and the appropriate officials of municipalities and other political subdivisions, to issue proclamations or take other suitable action with…

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Friday, April 14, 1950, as Pan American Day; and I direct the appropriate officials of the Government to have the flag of the United States…

It is the duty of every person over eighteen years of age to answer all questions in the census schedules applying to him and the family to which he belongs, and to the farm or home occupied by him or his family, and that any person…

It is my purpose to look to the Secretary of Commerce for leadership with respect to transportation problems and for the development of over-all transportation policy within the Executive Branch.

In summary, the reorganizations provided by this plan will have the following principal advantages: They will provide an efficient organization headed by a single responsible official to administer the large operating and business-type…

It is the principal custodian of the official records of the Government.

It will result in the accomplishment of optimum efficiency and is in the interest of the most effective organization of the Government.

I am confident that this reorganization plan will constitute a significant improvement in Federal business practice and will bring about an important increase in efficiency in housing Government agencies.

After investigation, I have found and hereby declare, that each reorganization contained in this plan is necessary to accomplish one or more of the purposes set forth in section 2(a) of the Reorganization Act of 1949.

After careful investigation I have found and I hereby declare that each of the reorganizations contained in this reorganization plan is necessary to accomplish one or more of the purposes set forth in section 2(a) of the Reorganization Act…

This plan transfers from the Secretary of State to the Administrator of General Services a number of functions which have no connection with foreign affairs but hear a close relation to the archival and records functions of the General…

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.

This reorganization plan carries out a specific recommendation of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government.

After investigation, I have found and hereby declare that each of the reorganizations included in Reorganization Plan No. 19 of 1950, is necessary to accomplish one or more of the purposes set forth in section 2(a) of the Reorganization…

This reorganization is another link in the program to strengthen the Department of Labor.

The first of the transfers provided for by this plan will result in the more economical administration of those activities of the Federal Government which are concerned with the over-all planning and development of communities.

After investigation I have found and hereby declare that each reorganization included in Reorganization Plan No. 15 of 1950 is necessary to accomplish one or more of the purposes set forth in section 2(a) of the Reorganization Act of 1949.

These responsibilities are thus largely unrelated to the administrative services with which the General Services Administration is primarily concerned.

The first of these bodies, the President's Advisory Committee on the Merchant Marine, in 1947, stated: 'It appears to the Committee that the organization structure of the Maritime Commission as set up in the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 is…

Since its establishment in 1789 the Department of State has performed certain routine secretarial and record-keeping functions for the Federal Government which are entirely extraneous to its basic mission with respect to the conduct of…

It is probable that a reduction of expenditures will result from the reorganizations included in this plan, as well as from greater efficiency of administration.

While it is not possible at this time to calculate the reduction in expenditures which will result from this plan, it can safely be predicted that it will produce substantial savings.