Excerpts from the Press Conference
04/24/1941
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It is good to be home.
I hereby direct the Secretary of the Navy to terminate and relinquish, on or before the fifteenth day following the date...
With God's help we will complete the fulfillment of the pledge we renewed when our men returned to Leyte.
The bill is eminently fair to the States.