FDR: “It will not destroy legitimate business or wholesome and productive investment.”

That the whole question of guaranteed wage plans and the possibility of their future development in American industries as an aid in the stabilization of employment and the regularization of production, should now be comprehensively…

All sections of our population—labor, farmers, businessmen have shared and will share in the benefits which increased trade brings.

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

The logic of events and our clear and pressing national interest must override our old party controversies.