Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, all the public lands within the following-described areas be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws, including the mining laws, for the use of the War Department as an anti-aircraft firing range

08/07/1940

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