I think it is a perfectly absurd opinion.

I expect to keep it up just on the same line that I have spoken of it all the time ever since April 12, 1945.

Well, I had no such plan. That is the first I had heard about it.

The Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby designated as the agency which shall complete the liquidation of the affairs of the Office of Defense Transportation.

This order supersedes all prior Executive orders to the extent that they are in conflict with this order and shall be effective as of July 1, 1949.

The Office of Defense Transportation, established by Executive Order No. 8989 of December 18, 1941, together with the office of Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, is hereby terminated.

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1103, and the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (16 U.S.C. 471, 473), and as President of the United States, and upon the…

WHEREAS I have this day approved the said agreement between the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United States department of Agriculture;

The problem presented in the case of Reno is not limited to any one locality.

Were I to approve S. 41, the precedent established would give rise to innumerable petitions for similar special relief of many other communities affected by the location therein of Federal real estate.

Federal responsibility has stopped at the property line.

The lack of such a program has resulted in numerous cases of hardship in particular communities.

I return herewith, without my approval, S. 41 'An Act for the relief of the City of Reno, Nevada.'

Section 502(d) of the Act provides that certain programs and functions now being carried on by various Executive agencies shall not be impaired or affected by the provisions of the Act.

When these studies and surveys have been completed and after consulting with the interested agencies, the Administrator shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to implement the determinations resulting from such studies and…

Under section 201 (c) of the Act, Executive agencies are permitted to apply exchange allowances and proceeds of sale in payment of property acquired.

I have always made it perfectly clear that a businessman doesn't have to hire a go-between to get Government contracts.

I recommend it to the consideration of the Congress in connection with such further provision as may be made for the continuance of Federal aid for highway construction.