Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I intend to request the Congress to raise the age limit for non-combat military service to 65 years.

Statement on the End of the Coal Strike

06/22/1943

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

The country should be, and will be, grateful to them for this disposition of what might have developed into a troublesome controversy.

The parents of our children are the guardians of our future citizens.

Parents and parents' associations occupy a unique position in the evolution and stabilization of our democratic form of government.

the effective date of the said Executive order be, and it is hereby, deferred until May 21, 1934