Patriotic Americans of proven merit and of unquestioned ability in their special fields are coming to Washington to help the government with their training, their experience and their capability.
FDR
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in New York and is best known for his leadership during two of the most significant crises in American history: the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs and reforms aimed at economic recovery and social welfare, which fundamentally reshaped the role of the federal government in American life.
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The soundest policy is for every employer in the country to help give useful employment to the millions who are unemployed.
Our morale and our mental defenses must be raised up as never before against those who would cast a smokescreen across our vision.
But we build and defend not for our generation alone.
For with control of the seas in their own hands, the way can obviously become clear for their next step--domination of the United States--domination of the Western Hemisphere by force of arms.
Under Nazi control of the seas, no merchant ship of the United States or of any other American Republic would be free to carry on any peaceful commerce, except by the condescending grace of this foreign and tyrannical power.
Generation after generation, America has battled for the general policy of the freedom of the seas.
Our policy has applied from the earliest days of the Republic--and still applies--not merely to the Atlantic but to the Pacific and to all other oceans as well.
Unrestricted submarine warfare in 1941 constitutes a defiance--an act of aggression--against that historic American policy.
It is clear to all Americans that the time has come when the Americas themselves must now be defended.
They know the necessities of a bold defense against these attacks.
The Japanese have treacherously violated the long-standing peace between us.
This is an old trick of propaganda which has been used innumerable times by the Nazis.
Our government will not be caught in this obvious trap--and neither will the people of the United States.
We knew that the war as a whole would have to be fought and won by a process of attrition against Japan itself.
Now nothing that has occurred in the past two months has caused us to revise this basic strategy of necessity--except that the defense put up by General MacArthur has magnificently exceeded the previous estimates of endurance, and he and…
They are making Japan pay an increasingly terrible price for her ambitious attempts to seize control of the whole Asiatic world.
We shall not demand special gains or special privileges or special advantages for any one group or occupation.
If you doubt it, ask those millions who live today under the tyranny of Hitlerism.
We must not lower our guard for one single instant.
It becomes clearer and clearer that the attrition, the whittling down process against the Japanese is working.
We must, this time, have plans ready-- instead of waiting to do a hasty, inefficient, and ill-considered job at the last moment.
This is an expensive war--expensive in money; you can help it--you can help to keep it at a minimum cost in lives.
We came to the conferences with faith in each other.
And now we have supplemented faith with definite knowledge.
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