the creation by U.S. President Harry S. Truman of the U.S. ‘Defense’ Department, on 18 September 1947, replacing the U.S. War Department that had been created on 7 August 1789
That's about when the government started to get cutesy with words, when the called the "War Department" the "Defense Department."
>the creation by U.S. President Harry S. Truman of the U.S. ‘Defense’ Department, on 18 September 1947, replacing the U.S. War Department that had been created on 7 August 1789
That's about when the government started to get cutesy with words, when the called the "War Department" the "Defense Department."
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