Excerpts from the Press Conference
11/23/1942
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That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor ...
As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.
I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fightin...
It is fruitless to try to place the blame for this situation on one particular Nation or on another.