Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

The National Resources Committee submits a six-year program, based on selection and priority of public works.

Message to Congress Transmitting the National Resource Committee's Six-Year Program of Public Works

02/02/1937

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Those provisions... amount to an unconstitutional invasion of the province of the executive.

The Commission... is specifically given complete administrative authority for the expenditure of public funds.

I haven't thought about it at all.

It is all off the record; all strictly in the family and nothing else.