Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"The Director of the Office of Economic Warfare may reconstitute the Boards of Directors of these corporations."

"The important thing is to clear the decks and to get on with the war at once."

"I am persuaded that the present controversy indicates that future cooperative action between your two agencies is impossible."

"Following such transfers, no corporations created and organized by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation... shall exercise any of its powers and functions in regard to any activity or transaction in ..."