Robin Carnahan, head of the General Services Administration, explains the roles of the agency established by President Truman on July 1, 1949 to help streamline federal government functions, during a panel discussion with Truman Library Director Kurt Graham, left, and Archivist Sam Rushay. [Mike Genet/The Examiner]
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net Coming out of World War II, a federal government that had grown so much because of war and New Deal programs…