It is particularly important, from a budgetary standpoint, that this money be returned to the government at as early a date as possible.

It seems to me that such broad general authority is unwise and unwarranted.

I am unable to agree, however, that a general policy should be established for the education, including transportation to and from school, at Federal expense, of the children of Federal employees at or near all Bureau of Reclamation…

Subject to the limitations contained in that order, I hereby authorize the Secretary of Commerce to perform and exercise all of the functions and powers vested in and granted to the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Treasury, the…

The welfare of the United States in the next 25 or 30 years is going to be in your hands--the hands of the young men who are now growing up and going to high school and college.

This order shall be applicable to articles entered by consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after August 1, 1946

When people ask what the Government of the United States is, it is you.

If you will all come by here, I will be glad to shake hands with each one of you.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitute and laws of the United States, and particularly by Title 1 of the First War Powers Act, 1941, approved December 18, 1941 (55 Stat. 838), I hereby extend the provisions of Executive…

I have been studying it ever since I was your age, and I don't think a finer system has ever been created in the history of the world.

It will continue to work just as long as you want it to work.

It is nice to have you boys here as our guests this morning.

For these reasons, I feel obliged to withhold my approval of this measure.

It is therefore essential that the expenditures of the Federal Government stay within the estimates of expenditures transmitted to the Congress in the January Budget.

I must request your assistance in a most serious fiscal situation.

I am convinced that this modification in program can be accomplished without impairing our effective defense.

In order to carry out the above program of curtailment of public works, the Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion will issue a directive providing that for a period of sixty days, until October 1, 1946, there will be a moratorium…

Accordingly, it is my desire that all postponable public works be deferred until private demands for goods and services slacken off.