Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

The arming of our ships is a matter of immediate necessity and extreme urgency.

I want particularly to take this occasion to express my great confidence that your armies will ultimately prevail over Hitler.

I am confident that ways will be found to provide the material and supplies necessary to fight Hitler on all fronts, including your own.

I hereby exempt the said Rutherford H. Baker from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending November 30, 1942.