Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

To be eligible for training all young men who will be high school graduates by July I must take the joint Army-Navy qualifying examination on March 15.

Context

Statement on the Army Specialized Training Enlisted Reserve for Seventeen-Year-Old Graduates

03/02/1944

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