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 ...
The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
The bill is eminently fair to the States.
The logic of events and our clear and pressing national interest must override our old party controversies.