Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I do hereby exempt Herman H. B. Meyer from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until November 1, 1935.

Executive Order 6864—Exemption of Herman H. B. Meyer from Compulsory Retirement for Age

10/02/1934

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

Today we reaffirm our faith in the democratic ideal.

I pray God no hazard of the future may ever dissipate or destroy that common ideal.

Our historic friendship finds apt expression in the quotation from a letter which Washington wrote to Rochambeau.

Though the seas divide us, the people of France and the people of the United States find union today in common devotion to the ideal which t...