Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, the public lands...be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws.

Context

Executive Order 9029—Withdrawing Public Lands for Use of the War Department as a General Bombing Range

01/19/1942

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