Excerpts from the Press Conference
08/24/1942
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The lands described in section 1 of this order are hereby temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry.
Executive Order No. 6910 of November 26, 1934, as amended, temporarily withdrawing all public lands in California is hereby revoked.
It is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, the public lands...be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation ...
I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going.