Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It is ordered that all the lands now or hereafter owned or controlled by the United States within the following-described area... be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from settlement...

Context

Executive Order 7713—Establishing Lake Thibadeau Migratory Waterfowl Refuge

09/22/1937

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