FDR: “I hope that all of you will be able to learn to swim, because that is about the only exercise I can take.”

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

This year we give as well in necessity—necessity for our own.

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

It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.