FDR: “Perhaps it is the best we could get at this time.”

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.

We all know that the reduction of Government-created barriers to trade will not solve all our trade problems.

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

It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.