Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"We must always bear in mind the ex-servicemen, a considerable number of whom will unquestionably desire to begin the study of medicine."

"I am told that this Committee recommended that there be no deferment for premedical students who are not in medical school by July 1 of this year."

"We will be making as sound an investment as any Government can make; the dividends are payable in human life and health."

"It strengthens the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service for the enormous tasks of the war and the peace to come."