FDR: “We cannot afford to be niggardly with any of our resources, for we shall need all of them to do the job that we have put…”

This is our chance to serve those who serve us.

That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor Board by the President.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.