Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

The above-named officers shall, while under the jurisdiction of the War Department, serve under their commissions in the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Executive Order 9510—Transfer of Certain Personnel from the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the War Department

01/07/1945

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

This Government is prepared to send a military mission to China.

We have in the Government an enormous number of papers.

Of course, that does not hold water, that kind of statement.

Denial does not make any difference one way or the other.