Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, the public lands in the following-described areas be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws

Context

Executive Order 8874—Withdrawing Public Lands for Use of the War Department as a Practice Bombing Range

08/27/1941

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