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FDR: “By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States”

On the recordJuly 29, 1937
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States
Said by
FDR
Democratic · New York

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Executive Order 7680—Enlarging the Elk Refuge

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