Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I am very, very appreciative of it and I think people understand the seriousness of the situation.

Any person employed in a foreign country or in the Virgin Islands, or in Puerto Rico when public exigency warrants, or in any island possess...

I hereby further exempt the said Frank B. Bourn from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1941.

Let Mac be the chairman; he is the secretary.