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I hereby authorize and direct that the Secretary of War immediately take possession of and operate the said plant of North American Aviation, Inc.

The company already has stated that any such settlement will be retroactive to May first.

I hereby exempt the said Clarence H, Branscombe from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending August 31, 1942.

All positions in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

John H. Dillon may be appointed to a classified position as Junior Administrative Officer (Confidential Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy).

Our defense production is a gigantic assembly line.

I am deeply distressed by your letter of June 2 telling me of your retirement on July first from active service as Chief Justice of the United States.

The Seaway will help prevent transportation bottlenecks.

No steam plants can provide the large blocks of low-cost electric energy required for certain essential defense industries.

It takes tens of thousands of kilowatt hours of electricity to produce the materials that go into a single airplane.

My every inclination is to beg you to remain; but my deep concern for your health and strength must be paramount.

Production and more production is the keynote of our all-out race for national defense.

This comes to me, as I know it will to the whole Nation, as a great shock for all of us had counted on your continuing your splendid service for many years to come.

I recommend authorization of construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project.

It is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, jurisdiction over the lands, together with the improvements thereon, acquired, or in process of acquisition, by the United States within the following-described area, comprising 114,964…

I call upon all our loyal workmen as well as employers to merge their lesser differences in the larger effort to insure the survival of the only kind of government which recognizes the rights of labor or of capital.

An unlimited national emergency confronts this country, which requires that its military, naval, air, and civilian defenses be put on the basis of readiness to repel any and all acts or threats of aggression directed toward any part of the…

The Civil Service Commission is hereby directed to refuse examination to any person who is, or who has been within three months of the date of the examination, employed in the civilian executive branch of the Federal Government.

I call upon loyal State and local leaders and officials to cooperate with the civilian defense agencies of the United States to assure our internal security against foreign directed subversion and to put every community in order for…

If there is any person in the United States who happens to be the leader of the America First movement, it is... the President of the United States.

America First Through Aid to Britain.

I think that is a pretty good compliment to pay to American business.

I think you can't overstress the seriousness of the present situation.

The Nations that are actually at war certainly are not conducting 'business as usual.'

You can't eat your cake and have it too.