Franklin Roosevelt said...

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 20 of the act of June 10, 1922.

I hereby direct the Secretary of the Navy to terminate and relinquish, on or before the fifteenth day following the date...

That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor ...

I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fightin...