Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"It is important that we set up without delay some regional machinery to acquaint us with our problem."

"it is ordered that Robert F. Kelley, who resigned his position in the Foreign Service of the United States on July 1, 1928, to accept appointment to a position in the Department of State, be, and he i..."

"We have undertaken a national policy."

"Apart from the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Columbia Valley Authority, and the Mississippi River Commission, the work of these regional bodies... would consist chiefly in developing integrated plan..."