Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

an agency, to wit: a banking corporation, be created pursuant to title 5, chapter 9, section 261 of the Code of the District of Columbia, under the name of Export-Import Bank of Washington.

Context

Executive Order 6581—Authorizing the Formation of a Banking Corporation To Be Known as Export-Import Bank of Washington

02/01/1934

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