FDR: “We have got to go a long way to catch up with the mistakes of the past”

The logic of events and our clear and pressing national interest must override our old party controversies.

It is ordered that the following changes be, and they are hereby, made in the customs field organization.

We shall be equipped to deal with the great overriding question of security, and with the crucial questions of money and exchange...

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and of danger.