You have the Nation's gratitude and the Nation's prayers for success as you and your men fight your way back to Bataan.
The suffering, humiliation, and mental torture that you have endured since the barbarous, unprovoked, and treacherous attack upon the Philip...
The whole American Nation today exults at the news that the gallant men under your command have landed on Philippine soil.
We promised to return; we have returned.
The country has followed with pride the magnificent sweep of your Fleet into enemy waters.
We are glad to be back in the Philippines but we do not intend to stop there.
Our decency was mistaken for weakness.
I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War to designate the Commanding General, United States Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas, as t...
This year, more than ever, we need the friendly aid and assistance of all these great humanitarian agencies for our fighting forces.
I know that we will keep faith with them, as they are keeping it with us, until their job is done.
This gift of friendship—this participation in our community war appeal- is one war job we are not compelled to do, but it is one that we all...
Wherever our boys in the services go, they are welcomed not only as liberators but as good friends.
I am deeply grateful, therefore, for this award.
This means that if we do not now take effective measures to prevent another world war...
We have not labored long and faithfully to build in this New World a system of international security and cooperation—merely to let it be di...
The survival of that spirit is more important than ever.
Today—every day—many times that number of men and many tons of cargo are carried across the ocean by air—they go across in a few hours.
Today is the birthday of the new world.