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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT - BUREAU OF THE BUDGET the WASHINGTON, D.C. Now 20 WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR November BINED 1945/. 45 MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT: I presented the Maritime Commission budget to you in a memorandum which you approved. It occurs to me that you should see the attached copy of a letter which I have sent the Secretary of the Navy. You may have a chance in some conversation to give this proposition some support. It well illustrates the piecemeal approach we seem to be forced into in dealing with some of these proposals. I have not yet been able to get a satisfactory com- prehensive view of the maritime situation. ton Inclosure