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Audio/Video Clips

President Harry S. Truman
Enacts The Marshall Plan
April 3, 1948

 

 

Transcript of Clip:

(Video footage is of an old newsreel. The opening screen announces "PRESIDENT SIGNS HISTORIC FOREIGN ASSISTANCE BILL". Newsreel then shifts to footage of President Truman signing the bill.)

ANNOUNCER: With the tradition of using several pens, President Truman signs the bill that puts into effect the Marshall Plan.


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Last Updated on: June 27, 2002