Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and in order to effectuate further the purposes of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, it is ordered that the lands and waters...be reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture.

11/21/1937

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