Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

all clerks and other employees in the Federal service in the District of Columbia... are hereby excused from duty on those days.

It is studying the extent to which it will be necessary to organize local councils.

I hereby authorize and direct Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., Solicitor of Labor, to perform the duties of Secretary of Labor during the absence o...

The use of a single field organization instead of separate ones for each emergency agency will wipe out all needless and costly duplication ...