FDR: “It is hard to build houses in time of war.”

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

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

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

It may be in another week or ten days.