Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

This bill is objectionable because it provides for the payment of a gratuity to the widow of a retired Foreign Service officer.

Veto of House Bill 1870

05/08/1934

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I think it would be well to make a few statements of fact about the plan and scope of the work in which we are engaged.

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I have approved of the recommendations of the committee and, in order to put them into effect, I have issued an appropriate Executive Order ...

We shall make the most orderly progress if we look upon social security as a development toward a goal rather than a finished product.