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the Board of Regents in December, 1974. On January 24, 1975, the Regents accepted the report and concurred in its findings. The report was submitted to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House as required by Section 3(a) of P. L. 87-186 on January 29, 1975.

On the recommendation of the Board of Regents and pursuant to the authorized study center, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute for Historical Research was established in the National Museum of History and Technology and dedicated in 1975. The Institute, under the direction of Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, the eminent biographer of General George C. Marshall, with the assistance of a very small staff, has aided and advised a number of Smithsonian Fellows who were engaged in historical research on topics having to do with military history. The Institute has also assisted many visiting scholars engaged in similar research both here and abroad.

The Institute has also sponsored and co-sponsored a number of highly successful scholarly conferences, lectures, and seminars. Of these, certainly the most notable took place in August 1975, when the International Conference for Military History, numbering historians from twenty-six countries around the world, met for three days in the National Museum of History and Technology under the sponsorship of the Eisenhower Institute.

Inasmuch as a National Armed Forces Museum, having these characteristics, in the Washington area, is not found to be feasible, Mr. Brown has concluded that the Board established by P. L. 87-186 and certain of the other provisions of this legislation are no longer necessary.