FDR: “We do want employment.”

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.

It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

The logic of events and our clear and pressing national interest must override our old party controversies.