Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It is ordered that... all lands and waters owned or controlled by the United States... be reserved for the use of the Department of the Interior as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife.

Context

Executive Order 9167—Establishing the Halfbreed Lake National Wildlife Refuge

05/18/1942

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