FDR

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion.

Overwhelmingly we, as a nation—and this applies to all the other American nations—are convinced that military and naval victory for the gods of force and hate would endanger the institutions of democracy in the western world.

This order shall take effect immediately and shall supersede and cancel Executive Order No. 7797 of January 26, 1938.

There is hereby established in the Post Office Department a regularly scheduled pick-up and delivery service for the transmission of mail.

The maximum age limit for entrance to examinations under the Civil Service Rules be, and it is hereby, waived to permit Mrs. Florence S. Eilenberger to compete in the pending open competitive civil service examination for the position of…

Modern defense requires that this determination be supported by the highly developed machinery of our industrial productive capacity.

I hereby further exempt the said James E. Harper from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1941.

We do not want to upset the normal trend of things any more than we possibly can help.

I am very, very appreciative of it and I think people understand the seriousness of the situation.

Any person employed in a foreign country or in the Virgin Islands, or in Puerto Rico when public exigency warrants, or in any island possession of the United States in the Pacific ocean (except the Hawaiian Islands), or United States…

I hereby further exempt the said Frank B. Bourn from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1941.

Let Mac be the chairman; he is the secretary.

We are trying to expend about a billion and a quarter dollars more than the normal process.

I hereby exempt the said Joseph F. Reardon from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending May 31, 1941.

This is not complete, immediate national mobilization.

Each one of you listening to me tonight has a way of helping them.

The Navy is far stronger today than at any peace-time period in the whole long history of the Nation.

The American people will not relish the idea of any American citizen growing rich and fat in an emergency of blood and slaughter and human suffering.

I am convinced, however, that under existing conditions the immigration and naturalization activities can best contribute to the national well-being only if they are closely integrated with the activities of the Department of Justice.

I think that people who insist on the limitations in Section 11 may, with some justification, be charged with a desire to return to boondoggling.

The limitation would have a disastrous effect upon the construction program of the Work Projects Administration.

It would prevent the employment of many needy employable persons at their regular occupations.

It would force the operation of numerous small projects of doubtful value with resulting complications in operation and administration.

I hereby exempt the said Hubert K. Bishop from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1041.

Of course relief has got to go through just as soon as it possibly can.