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Jul 26, 2022 · President Harry S. Truman at his desk in the Oval Office signing H.R. 5632, the National Security Act Amendments of 1949, August 10, 1949. No photo is available of the signing of the original 1947 Act because Truman signed it while aboard the presidential aircraft.
Nov 13, 2009 · President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act, which becomes one of the most important pieces of Cold War legislation. The act established much of the bureaucratic framework for...
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5 days ago · National Security Act, U.S. military- and foreign-policy reform legislation, signed into law by Pres. Harry S. Truman in July 1947, which reorganized the structure of the U.S. armed forces following World War II. It created the office of Secretary of Defense to oversee the nation’s military.
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President Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment of 1949. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson leans over the desk. Behind him is Admiral Louis Denfeld , General Omar N. Bradley , and General Hoyt Vandenberg .
- September 18, 1947
- the 80th United States Congress
- An Act to promote the national security by providing for a Secretary of Defense; for a National Military Establishment; for a Department of the Army, a Department of the Navy, a Department of the Air Force; and for the coordination of the activities of the National Military Establishment with other departments and agencies of the Government concerned with the national security.
- 50 U.S.C.: War and National Defense
Jul 28, 2017 · 1. The National Security Act of 1947 (hereafter “Act”) was a major reorganization of the foreign policy, intelligence, and military establishments of the U.S. government. The Act is “one of the most important pieces of legislation in modern American history,” says scholar Douglas Stuart. “No comparable omnibus legislation has been ...
August 10, 1949. President Harry S. Truman is seated at his desk in the Oval Office, signing H.R. 5632, the National Security Act Amendments of 1949, which converted the National Military Establishment into a new Department of Defense and made other changes in the national security system.
President signing the National Security Act into Law. The Council itself included the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and other members (such as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency), who met at the White House to discuss both long-term problems and more immediate national security crises.
