Excerpts from the Press Conference
02/23/1942
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The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
During the temporary absence of the Secretary of the Navy, the order of succession of the officers who shall act as Secr...
I hereby authorize the Secretary of War to take possession of the plants and facilities of the American Enka Corporation...
We combat this evil enemy of disease at home just as unremittingly as we fight our evil enemies abroad.