Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"I would be 'sympathetic to the enactment of legislation whereby revenues derived by the Federal Government from the National Park and Monument system could be used to offset... any loss of taxes.'"

"I am convinced that Jackson Hole is an 'object of historic or scientific interest' within the meaning of that Act."

"I believe that whatever reasonable objections may exist to the continuance of the monument can be overcome without depriving this area of the protection it is justly entitled under the Antiquities Act..."

"We are today at a crucial point in the war."