Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"Of course that is not free competition and the thing is not working."

"The Special Adviser may appoint, without regard to the Civil Service laws, officials and employees."

"The authorization herein set forth shall not exclude any department or other agency from carrying on such activities as are now authorized by law."

"Obviously, just so long as you have to pay exorbitant real-estate prices in clearing slum properties, you cannot put up any new buildings on a sufficiently sound basis."