The Secretary of State shall act as Chairman of the Board.

it is ordered that all of the functions, duties, and powers vested in the Council of National Defense be, and they are hereby, transferred to and vested in the Secretary of the Interior

The Director shall take steps to secure the cooperation, assistance, and services of other Governmental agencies.

Awards of the Medal for Merit may be made to such civilians of the nations prosecuting the war under the joint declaration of the United Nations and of other friendly foreign nations.

There is hereby created a Board to be known as the 'Medal for Merit Board'.

The Director of the Commission is authorized and directed to formulate and effectuate a program for the study of typhus fever and the control thereof.

I am not going to apply the Platt Amendment.

I think the time has come to recognize the practical exposition of the Good Neighbor Policy.

I am going to exercise the Good Neighbor Policy.

By their fruits shall ye know them.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, and in order to assure an adequate supply and efficient…

I hereby appoint Benjamin W. Thoron, Director, Division of Territories and Island Possessions, Department of the Interior, as Administrator of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration.

The Administrator shall compile data and make continuing surveys with respect to the effect of the prices charged for petroleum upon the efficient wartime operations of the petroleum industry.

Nothing in this Order shall be deemed to limit in any way the authority of the Departments of War and Navy to initiate or carry out directly, without review or approval by the Administrator, any action relating to petroleum.

Let us turn again to the work that confronts us in this time of national emergency.

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.

We must keep every pound we can on our wheels to maintain our wartime transportation system.

I do hereby invite the attention of the people to the joint resolution of Congress approved December 26, 1941.