Excerpts from the Press Conference
02/01/1943
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We must also teach them how to live useful and happy lives in freedom, justice, and decency.
The use, possession, and control of the lands hereinafter described be, and they are hereby, transferred from the Department of Agriculture ...
The Government's policy not to seek deferments for part-time or uncompensated employees or for dollar-a-year men is well established.
I am convinced that they are anxious to put on their country's uniform and that they have been kept, often against their will, in their pres...