Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I have suggested a permanent planning agency under the Chief Executive in order that, among other things, all public works proposals may filter from the many individual departments and bureaus to a central planning place and thence to the President.

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Message to Congress Transmitting the National Resource Committee's Six-Year Program of Public Works

02/02/1937

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