FDR: “We shall also buy or sell gold in the world market.”

We shall be equipped to deal with the great overriding question of security, and with the crucial questions of money and exchange...

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

As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.

It has served as a link between the fighting man and his loved ones here at home.