FDR: “I regard this action today as an event of the first importance.”

This is our chance to serve those who serve us.

I recommend that the Congress authorize the acceptance of the Constitution and the participation of the United States in the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization.

It is ordered that the following changes be, and they are hereby, made in the customs field organization.

I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.