FDR: “I wish that I might go with you to the Yukon, and to Alaska.”

As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

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

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to take possession of any and all such mines.