We've got to have a Congress. The law provides for it. [Laughter]

It's off the record entirely.

It takes a little more than rough arithmetic to understand the Federal Government, it takes calculus. [Laughter]

I do hereby proclaim Wednesday, August 14, 1946, as Victory Day; and I direct that on that day the flag of the United States be displayed on all Government buildings.

They are going to be made, or we'll break somebody's neck.

It's being absorbed in every other department.

No, we haven't made an estimate on that.

There is no double-talk in this message at all.

I call upon the people of the United States to observe Victory Day as a day of solemn commemoration of the devotion of the men and women by whose sacrifices victory was achieved.

We tried to put it in as clear a statement as possible, but we want everybody to have access to the actual figures, to understand it as we think we do.

You can say I am still hopeful. That will be all right.

In fact, General Gregory got so disgusted with it, it made him sick, and he had to quit.

It's only that part--we have only included that part of the British loan which we knew would be spent in this year.

I made that comment yesterday, which was published in all the papers of the United States.

I have just sent down the name of Keen Johnson of Kentucky, to be Under Secretary of Labor.

I am not going to discuss New York politics this morning.

Mr. Attlee has not been in consultation with me.

I voted for it every time it came up, when I was in the Senate.