FDR: “Our task involves the making of a better living out of the lands that we have.”

We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and of danger.

All Federal agencies are directed to cooperate with the Secretary of the Interior to the fullest extent possible.

That such study should be conducted by a specially appointed commission charged with the duty of examining into the experience which industry and labor have thus far had with these plans, and of reporting the facts for the benefit of the…