Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and in order to effectuate the purposes of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, it is ordered that the following-described area in Salem County, New Jersey, be reserved.

02/03/1935

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