Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

it is ordered that the tract of public land at Tanana, adjoining the former military reservation of Fort Gibbon, Alaska, which was reserved and set apart by Executive Order No. 920 of July 25, 1908, as a military reservation for the use of the Signal Corps, United States Army, and which I find has become useless for military purposes, be, and it is hereby, placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior for disposition as provided in the said act of July 5, 1884, or as may be otherwise provided by law.

08/20/1941

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