FDR: “I hereby prescribe the following regulations governing the employment of unclassified laborers in the executive civil…”

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.

That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor Board by the President.

We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

It may be in another week or ten days.