Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

The objective was to enable those young people, whose education had been interrupted, to resume their schooling.

Message to Congress on the Education of War Veterans

10/26/1943

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The care of the disabled, the sick, the destitute and the starving in all ranks of our population—that, my friends, is the first thing.

It is the same thought, to put it into naval terms, as to say that the speed of a fleet is the speed of the slowest vessel in the fleet.

I commend them to your care, and I am very certain that you will give it to them.

You see before you today a monument which is a very definite representation of the national policy of your Government.