FDR: “The vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental law, but an increasingly enlightened view with reference to it.”

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

All sections of our population—labor, farmers, businessmen have shared and will share in the benefits which increased trade brings.

The coming victory of the United Nations means that they, and not their enemies, have power to establish the foundations of the future.

That the whole question of guaranteed wage plans and the possibility of their future development in American industries as an aid in the stabilization of employment and the regularization of production, should now be comprehensively…