FDR: “This time element forces us to still greater efforts to attain the full employment of our labor and our capital.”

The work, my friends, is peace.

That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor Board by the President.

We shall be equipped to deal with the great overriding question of security, and with the crucial questions of money and exchange...

The coming total defeat of our enemies, and of the philosophy of conflict and aggression... gives us a new chance and a better chance than we have ever had to bring about conditions under which the Nations of the world substitute…