FDR: “This total war, with our fighting fronts all over the world, makes the use of the executive power far more essential…”

We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

It may be in another week or ten days.

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to take possession of any and all such mines.

The work, my friends, is peace.