Excerpts from the Press Conference
08/28/1944
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It is fruitless to try to place the blame for this situation on one particular Nation or on another.
The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
During the temporary absence of the Secretary of the Navy, the order of succession of the officers who shall act as Secr...
I hereby direct the Secretary of the Navy to terminate and relinquish, on or before the fifteenth day following the date...