Woodrow Wilson: “As President he awoke the Nation to the dangers of private control which lurked in our financial and industrial systems.”

It waits with acquiescence, in the first place, for laws which will effectively prohibit and prevent such interlocking of the personnel of the directorates of great corporations—banks and railroads, industrial, commercial and public…

In recommending to you that Congress take appropriate action with regard to this agreement, certain facts should be brought to your attention.

Such records, files, reports, copies of contracts, correspondence, and proceedings transferred under this order, and such personnel detailed or assigned thereunder, as are stated in a written notice to the Secretary of the Federal Trade…

public interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened at twelve o'clock on the fourth day of March next to receive such communications as may be made by the Executive.