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

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

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

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

The Federal Government should not compete with private industry for scarce materials, neither should it compete in any area for scarce labor.

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…

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.

We've got to have a Congress. The law provides for it. [Laughter]

Well, you can translate it that way, if you like.

It's off the record entirely.

It takes a little more than rough arithmetic to understand the Federal Government, it takes calculus. [Laughter]

You can say I am still hopeful. That will be all right.

We tried to put it in as clear a statement as possible, but we want everybody to have access to the actual figures, to understand it as we think we do.

They are going to be made, or we'll break somebody's neck.

I call upon the people of the United States to observe Victory Day as a day of solemn commemoration of the devotion of the men and women by whose sacrifices victory was achieved.

No, we haven't made an estimate on that.

It's being absorbed in every other department.

There is no double-talk in this message at all.