FDR: “It seems better to merge the movement of ships... and give to the one person several subdivisions under him.”

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

It will recommend agricultural policies and advise Nations on their food and agricultural problems, but it will have no power to coerce or command.

This year we give as well in necessity—necessity for our own.

The work, my friends, is peace.