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Federal Civil Defense Administration

The Federal Civil Defense Administration was organized by President Harry S. Truman on 1 December 1950 through Executive Order 10186, and became an official government agency via the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 on 12 January 1951.[https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~wgreen/Ecdtruman.htm Civil Defense: The Truman Administration ] from The Electronic Encyclopaedia of Civil Defense and Emergency Management edited by Walter G. Green III In 1958 the FCDA was superseded by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization when President Dwight D. Eisenhower merged the FCDA with the Office of Defense Mobilization.[https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~wgreen/Ecdeisenhower.htm Civil Defense: The Eisenhower Administration ] from The Electronic Encyclopaedia of Civil Defense and Emergency Management edited by Walter G. Green III Wikipedia*

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Federal Civil Defense Administration has hosted 1 event in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1951 Vignette.

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