Excerpts from the Press Conference
08/22/1940
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We all know that the reduction of Government-created barriers to trade will not solve all our trade problems.
That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor ...
It is not really of any great importance.
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered ...