The Cold War continues: Democratic (socialist/fascist) President Truman signs the Economic Cooperation Act, implementing the European Recovery Program (a.k.a. the “Marshall Plan”), which authorizes the expenditure of 13,000,000,000 “dollars” in foreign aid over the next four years, to rebuild war-torn Europe.

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Subsequent Events:

6/24/1948                   8/18/1949                    11/14/1951

Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface

References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 368.

“Today in History,” Orange County (California) Register, 3 April 2011, News:14.

Marshall Plan – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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