FDR: “Executive Order No. 7709-A... is hereby modified so as to extend the date for the abolishment of the said National…”

I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.

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

This year we give as well in necessity—necessity for our own.

It may be in another week or ten days.