FDR: “Any functions and powers which are hereby delegated and transferred to the Administrator of the National Recovery…”

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.

That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor Board by the President.

This year we give as well in necessity—necessity for our own.

It has served as a link between the fighting man and his loved ones here at home.