I hope that if we are unsuccessful in this campaign, that the campaign, itself, the issue of this election, we will give the next President of the United States, whoever he may be, a sense of purpose, a sense of his obligation to place before the American people our unfinished business.

I believe the responsibilities which the next President and the next administration will bear are as great as any in our history.

The point I want to make, however, is that most of the difficult decisions which the next President will meet will involve problems about which we have thought very little.

But if, on the other hand, I should win the election, then I shall devote every effort of mind and spirit to fulfilling the oath of the Presidency.

I do not run for the Presidency because it is an easy job.

I don't run for the office of the Presidency promising that if you elect me life will be easier.

I don't run for the office of the Presidency promising that if I am elected life is going to be easy.

I am a candidate for the office of the Presidency.

I don't run for the office of the Presidency promising that if I am elected that life will be easy, but I do run for the office of the Presidency with the greatest possible confidence in this country.

I don't run for the office of the Presidency promising you that if I am elected that life will be easy and the problems all solved

I run for the office of the Presidency in the most difficult time in the life of our country, in many ways the most difficult in a hundred years.

I campaign for the office of the Presidency in a very difficult and dangerous time in the life of our country.

As President of the United States I have handed out more medals than any other President--maybe as many as all the rest of the Presidents put together.

It will be in my study in the White House.

I have told them many a time that I would much rather have that Congressional Medal of Honor than to be President of the United States.

You have fulfilled my idea of what a President ought to be.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, and for the purpose of assuring the most effective prosecution of war procurement and production, it is hereby ordered as follows: