FDR: “I hereby establish an agency within the Department of the Interior to be known as the 'Puerto Rico Reconstruction…”

The coming victory of the United Nations means that they, and not their enemies, have power to establish the foundations of the future.

The coming total defeat of our enemies, and of the philosophy of conflict and aggression... gives us a new chance and a better chance than we have ever had to bring about conditions under which the Nations of the world substitute…

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.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: