FDR: “It has become increasingly clear that these needs cannot be met unless employment by the Works Progress Administration…”

That such study should be conducted by a specially appointed commission charged with the duty of examining into the experience which industry and labor have thus far had with these plans, and of reporting the facts for the benefit of the…

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.

It is not really of any great importance.

It will recommend agricultural policies and advise Nations on their food and agricultural problems, but it will have no power to coerce or command.