Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, and particularly by the First War Powers Act, 1941, it is ordered as follows.

Context

Executive Order 9336—Authorizing Financing Arrangements to Facilitate the Prosecution of the War

04/23/1943

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