Governors discussed the relationships among various levels of government, including those regarding taxation. Governors also talked about problems that would be faced by returning veterans, and about post-war business recovery, including the need to ensure that increased peacetime production was met with sufficient consumer demand. They spoke of the role of government in fostering an effective aviation program, and of federal legislation designed to correct flaws in the Social Security system, including providing universal coverage across occupations, establishing a nationwide Employment Service program with state and local participation, extending public assistance to all needy persons regardless of residency or citizenship, expanding Public Health Service grants to states, placing all children's programs on a variable matching basis, establishing prepaid personal health service insurance, and providing appropriations for the construction of public and nonprofit hospitals across the nation.

Governor Dwight Green of Illinois said: "It is...certain that our domestic airlines will experience...rapid growth and expansion...With continued progress in aerodynamics and the development of all-weather flying, it is quite probable that the airlines soon will handle most of our transcontinental travel and practically all of our mails carried 400 miles or more."

Governor J. Howard McGrath of Rhode Island, urging support for federal legislation to correct flaws in the Social Security system, said that it "...provides for a working partnership between the federal government and the respective states with large areas in which state administration is predominant. The program, too, is inviting in that it recognizes the financial limitations of the individual states, and provides for substantial federal grants."

With ratification of the UN Charter imminent, USNR Commander Harold E. Stassen said: "Have we thought through and searched through the problems that will there arise to the degree that is necessary if the representative of the United States and the delegates of the United States in the bodies of that organization are to exercise the constructive leadership which the United States must give in the world today? That is the challenge before our country." And he delineated a role for Governors to play in foreign policy, saying: "The world policy of a democracy...can only be formulated through the very frankest of public discussion, by a searching through of different views and problems that arise in various parts of the world...by public addresses and discussions such as those in which the governors of the states can and I know will participate."

Selected Resolutions Adopted:
(1) Endorsing the UN Charter; (2) repeating their 1944 resolution on cooperation of national, state and local government with respect to public services; (3) expressing the view that various federal agencies charged with the administration of veterans' affairs be required to cooperate with state agencies; (4) urging Congress, in developing a national airport system, to channel aid to local communities exclusively through state governments; (5) endorsing the continuation of the national policy of maintaining a strong, effective, and well-trained National Guard within each of the several states; (6) again, as in 1944, requesting return of employment services to the states; and (7) requesting the Council of State Governments, in conjunction with state tax experts, to survey sources of national, state, and local revenue in order to recommend to Governors a program for separation and allocation of various sources of tax revenues to the national, state and local governments.