FDR: “I am very glad to come to Grand Rapids.”

It is ordered that the following changes be, and they are hereby, made in the customs field organization.

As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.

It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.

The coming total defeat of our enemies, and of the philosophy of conflict and aggression... gives us a new chance and a better chance than we have ever had to bring about conditions under which the Nations of the world substitute…