Excerpts from the Press Conference
10/19/1942
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I hereby authorize the Secretary of War to take possession of the plants and facilities of the American Enka Corporation...
With God's help we will complete the fulfillment of the pledge we renewed when our men returned to Leyte.
The purpose of this moratorium period is to permit the States to make necessary readjustments in their laws with respect...
I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fightin...