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FDR: “I reserve the right by virtue of the authority vested in me to revoke or modify this proclamation as the interest of the…”

On the recordDecember 29, 1937
I reserve the right by virtue of the authority vested in me to revoke or modify this proclamation as the interest of the United States may seem to require.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Proclamation 2268—Relating to Newly-Mined Domestic Silver

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