01/05/1945
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"The first registration under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 for Puerto Rico shall take place in Puerto Rico on Wednesday, the twentieth day of November, 1940, between the hours of 7:00..."
"I call upon the Governor of Puerto Rico to provide suitable and sufficient places of registration and to provide suitable and necessary registration boards to effect such registration."
"Let us all, as Americans, unite in a solemn determination to defend and maintain and transmit to those who shall follow us the rich heritage of freedom which is ours today."
"How marvelous has been the advancement of your race, 'Up from Slavery,' to quote the title of a book which won universal admiration when the great Booker T. Washington gave it to the world nearly fort..."