FDR

To the populace he was a hero.

In his passing the country loses a true patriot.

It is for all of us Americans to see that the building of that future does not lag because the country schools are without the means to carry on their essential work even more than they have in the past.

We cannot be satisfied with the state of this Nation if a large percentage of our children are not being given the opportunity to achieve good health as well as good education.

Frank, friendly and warmhearted, honest as the noonday sun, he had the courage of his convictions.

Nothing can provide a stronger bulwark in the years to come than an educated and enlightened and tolerant citizenry.

I have, therefore, concluded that it would be best to let the bill become law in the hope that after the Surplus Property Board provided for in the bill has had some experience in operating under it, the Congress will give careful…

Our surplus property should speedily be placed into channels of disposition which should provide the most jobs and the greatest good for the greatest number.

We have rightly committed ourselves to a fair and generous treatment of our G.I. men and women.

They would like to have more.

When the Director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion takes office, all functions, powers, and duties heretofore conferred upon the Office of War Mobilization shall be transferred to the said Director.

It does not and cannot, of course, eliminate the problems and difficulties of reconversion, but it goes far to expedite and facilitate their solution.

When I signed the G.I. Bill on June 22 last, I expressed the hope that 'the Congress will also take prompt action, when it reconvenes, on necessary legislation which is now pending to facilitate the development of unified programs for the…

Paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 of this order shall become effective as to each of the agencies heretofore created by executive order and named in the said paragraphs upon the date when such agency ceases to exist.

All records and office equipment of the Surplus War Property Administration shall be transferred to the Surplus Property Board established by the Surplus Property Act of 1944.

All records and property of the Retraining and Reemployment Administration shall be transferred to the Retraining and Reemployment Administration established by the War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944.

I have signed S. 2051, a bill 'to amend the Social Security Act, as amended, to provide a national program for war mobilization and reconversion, and for other purposes.'

All records and property of the Office of War Mobilization shall be transferred to the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion established by the War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944.

I have considerable doubt whether many provisions of the bill will not make extremely difficult the accomplishment of its objectives.

An emergency facility shall be considered as having ceased to be necessary in the interest of national defense during the emergency period.

International trade on as full and free a basis as possible is necessary not only as a sound economic foundation for the future peace, but it is also necessary in order that we may have fuller production and employment at home.

This situation presents the extraordinary paradox of the growth of Nazi-Fascist influence and the increasing application of Nazi-Fascist methods in a country of this hemisphere.

The vast majority of the people of Argentina have remained steadfast in their faith in their own free, democratic traditions.

There can be little hope for a system of international security, theoretically created to maintain principles for which our peoples are today sacrificing to the limit of their resources.

It is in the national interest of the United States, as well as the joint interest of the United States and the other peace-loving Nations, that the destruction and devastation of war be repaired and that the foundations for a secure peace…