Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"The Special Adviser is authorized to obtain, review, and coordinate the information, statistics, and data with reference to foreign trade."

"The Special Adviser may appoint, without regard to the Civil Service laws, officials and employees."

"I have to point out in a memorandum that in its essentials this bill is really nothing more than a resolution that it is still the policy of the United States to build up to the London Naval Treaty li..."

"Obviously, just so long as you have to pay exorbitant real-estate prices in clearing slum properties, you cannot put up any new buildings on a sufficiently sound basis."