Excerpts from the Press Conference
12/16/1943
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This Chickamauga Dam ... is helping to give to all of us human control of the watershed of the Tennessee River.
I hereby amend the two provisos contained in Executive Order No. 7908 of June 9, 1938.
Shall not restrict the disposition of such mineral resources under the public-land laws.
I hereby order into the active military service of the United States, effective September 16, 1940, the following units and members of the N...