Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It contributes only to the confusion of the public, which naturally does not know what to believe on an involved issue when it gets different stories on successive days from officials of equal standing.

Context

Letter to Each Federal Department and Agency on Public Disagreements Between Federal Officials

08/20/1942

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