Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

it is ordered that the following-described lands, transferred from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Interior by Executive Order No. 8471 of July 8, 1940, be, and they are hereby, transferred from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Agriculture for use in connection with the land-conservation and land-utilization program of the Soil Conservation Service.

Context

Executive Order 8912—Transfer of Certain Lands From the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Agriculture

09/26/1941

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