FDR: “I do hereby approve and adopt the report and recommendations of said committee and do order:”

As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.

That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor Board by the President.

I recommend that the Congress authorize the acceptance of the Constitution and the participation of the United States in the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and of danger.