Excerpts from the Press Conference
10/26/1942
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It is good to be home.
The bill is eminently fair to the States.
The purpose of this moratorium period is to permit the States to make necessary readjustments in their laws with respect...
I hereby direct the Secretary of the Navy to terminate and relinquish, on or before the fifteenth day following the date...