FDR: “When the Director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion takes office, all functions, powers, and duties…”

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

The Secretary of the Interior shall make employment available and provide protection to all employees working at such mines.

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

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.