Our generation will not soon forget, as the learned the world over will long remember, his extraordinary achievements as judge, as historian, and as philosopher of the law.

We also mark for posterity our pride in his faith in American democracy, his confidence in the power of our legal institutions to realize, when rightly used, the highest American ideals.

For him law was an instrument of just relations between man and man.

Clearly he thereby sought, with a generous emphasis, to mark the full measure of his faith in those principles of freedom and justice which the country was founded to preserve.

I therefore commend to the Congress that the bequest of Mr. Justice Holmes be not covered into the general fund of the Treasury.

Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying that we live by symbols.

I hereby appoint Frank C. Walker as Executive Director of the National Emergency Council.

I trust that this forthcoming anniversary will be seized as the opportune occasion to instil in American minds and hearts the cherished appreciation of the rank and honor that is the rightful due of the 'Great Ordinance.'

The principles therein embodied served as the highway, broad and safe, over which poured the westward march of our civilization.

On this plan was the United States built; on the plan of this Ordinance we have, State by State, filled in the geographic frame of our domain; and from it we have had no occasion to depart.

Together, continue the battle against depression until there is a real national recovery on all fronts.

I ask the continued cooperation of the press.

I welcome constructive criticism of us in Government.

General Pulaski was distinguished among the noble company of those who gave their all for that cause; some were Americans; some were from countries across the sea.

For our own leader of the American Revolution, the greatest of Americans, and for him alone, have we as a people set apart one day each year.

I am tremendously interested in your suggestion of R.L.S. and Crooked Island.

His devotion to duty ended only when he fell in action in the service of the Republic; he is one of our heroes of that time and of all time.

Every American should have the deepest appreciation of the brilliant and gallant services of General Pulaski in the Revolutionary War.