Excerpts from the Press Conference
08/25/1941
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We can be proud of all that the Red Cross has meant to them.
This year we give as well in necessity—necessity for our own.
I hereby exempt the said Harry F. Hawley from compulsory retirement for age for such time as may be deemed necessary, bu...
I hereby direct the Secretary of the Navy to terminate and relinquish, on or before the fifteenth day following the date...