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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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Dec 5, 1941

Section 9 of Executive Order No. 7676 of July 26, 1937, entitled 'The Canal Zone Judiciary, is amended to read:

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Nov 25, 1941

The airspace above the following-described portion of the District of Columbia is hereby reserved and set apart for national defense and other governmental purposes

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Nov 23, 1941

Executive Order No. 1474 of February 16, 1912, withdrawing lot 2, sec. 1, T. 27 S., R. 71 W., Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, for use by the Forest Service as the Malachite Administrative Site in connection with the administration of…

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Nov 13, 1941

The Government of the United States will not order, nor will Congress pass legislation ordering, a so-called closed shop.

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Nov 12, 1941

Our own position in the struggle against aggression would be definitely weakened.

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Nov 7, 1941

Thanksgiving Day, 1941, as a day to be observed in giving thanks to the Heavenly Source of our earthly blessings.

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Nov 5, 1941

There must be no place in the postwar world for special privilege for either individuals or Nations.

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Nov 5, 1941

The American workman does not have to be convinced that the defense of the democracies is his defense.

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Nov 3, 1941

And I think all of us hope—for the Princess and for her mother—that the day will come very soon when they will go back to their home in the Netherlands.

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Nov 2, 1941

I think it is better we talked about that for ten or fifteen years than if we had belonged to the kind of society where somebody way up on top- some dictator—had said to the Town of Hyde Park fifteen years ago, 'You have got to have one.'

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Nov 2, 1941

I don't think we are ever coming to this 'new order' of the world in this country.

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Nov 2, 1941

I should like to see every boy and girl in this school taken down to see one of the courts in Poughkeepsie.

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Oct 31, 1941

Absences of one-half day or more, when regularly authorized, shall be charged against annual leave.

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Oct 31, 1941

The Coast Guard shall from this date, until further orders, operate as a part of the Navy.

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Oct 29, 1941

I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War immediately, in so far as may be necessary or desirable, to take possession of and operate the Bendix, New Jersey, plants of Air Associates, Incorporated.

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Oct 24, 1941

I know that our country will not shrink from that responsibility nor quail before whatever sacrifices it may demand.

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Oct 24, 1941

Our people have decided, and they are constantly becoming more determined, that Hitler's threat to everything for which we stand must be struck down.

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Oct 24, 1941

I hereby exempt the said Dr. Lawrence W. White from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending February 28, 1943.

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