My best wishes go with you in your new venture and in anything you undertake.

I know from the lips of President Roosevelt how much you meant to him, and how much he relied upon you.

Dear Steve: I am very loath to see June first come around because, as you state in your very kind letter of the twenty-eighth, it means that you are definitely leaving your official post at the White House.

It is our custom each year to set aside a day on which to render special honor to our Flag.

The transition from war to peace is part and parcel of the war and we cannot shirk our obligation to those temporarily unemployed through no fault of their own.

Solemnly, we accept the responsibilities placed upon us by our power.

We must provide maximum security to those who have given so fully of themselves on the fighting and production fronts.

I direct the officials of the Federal Government and I request the officials of the State and local government to display the Flag of our Republic on all public buildings on Flag Day.

Decent unemployment benefits would serve as a bulwark against postwar deflation.

I urge the people of the United States on that day to fly the American Flag from their homes.

We celebrate Flag Day this year with a fresh sense of our strength as a nation.

Let us observe this Flag Day by raising our Flag and beside it the flags of the United Nations.

Let this display of the flags of the United Nations symbolize our unity with our Allies both upon the battlefields of war and under the skies of peace.

Our Flag will be planted in the heart of the empire of our last remaining enemy.

Adequate unemployment insurance is an indispensable form of prosperity insurance.

The Government has thus incurred a moral obligation to these workers and to those who have stuck faithfully to their posts in the past.

Let me express my own appreciation, and also the thanks of the people of the United States for the hard, conscientious and efficient work you have done as War Food Administrator.

Under your administration the farmers of the nation have performed miracles of production of foods and fibres which did so much to win the war in Europe and to place us on the road to victory in the Pacific.