FDR: “I hereby exempt the said J. Brent Clarke from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending September…”

The coming total defeat of our enemies, and of the philosophy of conflict and aggression... gives us a new chance and a better chance than we have ever had to bring about conditions under which the Nations of the world substitute…

The work, my friends, is peace.

All Federal agencies are directed to cooperate with the Secretary of the Interior to the fullest extent possible.

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