Office for Emergency Management

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Office for Emergency Management
Agency overview
FormedMay 25, 1940 (1940-05-25)
Preceding
  • similar earlier agencies:
    Office of War Information

The Office for Emergency Management (OEM) was an office within the Executive Office of the

EO 8248, September 8, 1939. [citation needed
]

The office functioned to assist the President in clearing information on defense measures. It maintained liaison with national defense agencies and coordinated the national defense program.[citation needed]

The office was abolished progressively, with the Division of Information terminated by EO 9182, June 13, 1942; liaison functions terminated with resignation of Liaison Officer for Emergency Management (the OEM director), November 3, 1943; and Division of Central Administrative Affairs abolished, effective November 30, 1944, by EO 9471, August 25, 1944, with the Department of the Treasury named as liquidator.[citation needed]

Successor agencies

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Papers of (Albert) Wayne Coy". FDR Presidential Library and Museum.