Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, the following-described lands be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws

Context

Executive Order 9115—Withdrawing Public Lands for the Use of the Department of State

03/27/1942

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