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Volume 31, Number 3. Seventy years ago, on 26 July 1947, a small band of U.S. Marines celebrated the signing of the National Security Act. Due to their efforts, and despite Army opposition, Navy defection, and waning support by the Marine Commandant, the law codified the specific roles and functions reserved to the Corps by Congress.
Jul 26, 2013 · Today marks the 66th anniversary of the signing of the National Security Act. The Act was signed into law on July 26, 1947 by President Harry Truman. At the time, the Act was hailed as a major accomplishment. “This landmark legislation reorganized and modernized the US armed forces, foreign policy, and the Intelligence Community apparatus.
Jul 26, 2017 · An important step towards both of those goals occurred in the passage of the 1947 National Security Act, which turns 70 today, July 26. After massive spending to win World War II, the public was tired of constant war-readiness and the high taxes that accompanied it. At the same time, President Truman and his advisers were gravely concerned ...
The National Security Act of 1947 gave the Secretary of Defense an ill-defined authority to eliminate duplication and overlap among the services in the supply area and created a co-ordinating authority in the Munitions Board which, along with other functions, was to work toward these ends.21 The accomplishments of the Munitions Board along this ...
Aug 2, 2017 · We should not, however, recall 1947 as “the good old days” when the president and Congress could easily overcome partisan divides to pass important legislation, nor should we think bipartisanship is impossible today. Resistance to parts of the 1947 act was strong. For example, although we built a massive air armada to win the World War II ...
On 28 January 1947, Mr. Murphy requested the undersigned to come to his office, and there handed him the Third Draft (dated 27 January 1947) of the proposed National Security Act of 1947./5/ Mr. Murphy indicated that most of our requests had not been complied with, and that the Army and Navy had seen fit to overrule his recommendations in that ...
Jul 26, 2011 · 07/26/2011 04:45 AM EDT. On this day in 1947, President Harry Truman signed a comprehensive National Security Act that had been crafted by the Republican-led Congress in the aftermath of World War ...
