Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

My great ambition on January 20, 1941, is to turn over this desk and chair in the White House to my successor.

Address at the Democratic Victory Dinner. Washington

03/03/1937

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Imbued with a high sense of justice and right, he believed in the peaceful evolution of the new from the old.

His was a life of rare distinction; soldier, scholar, author, teacher, jurist and gallant gentleman.

The people of America mourn the death of the venerable and beloved Justice.

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933.