FDR: “I strongly recommend the passage of this legislation.”

The Secretary of the Interior shall make employment available and provide protection to all employees working at such mines.

I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.

It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.

The coming total defeat of our enemies, and of the philosophy of conflict and aggression... gives us a new chance and a better chance than we have ever had to bring about conditions under which the Nations of the world substitute…