Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

the Secretary of Commerce is directed to make, subject to the exercise by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget of his responsibilities for the coordination of Federal statistical activities, such special investigations and reports of census or statistical matters as may be needed in connection with the conduct of the war.

04/28/1942

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