Prologue: The Journal of the National ArchivesNational Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 2001 |
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Page 24 - Whenever, during the present war, the President shall deem that the public safety demands it, he may cause to be censored under such rules and regulations as he may from time to time establish, communications by mail, cable, radio, or other means of transmission passing between the United States and any foreign country...
Page 76 - bring together the records of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved / for the use of men living in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must "believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment for the creation of the future.
Page 284 - Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces— with the unbounding determination of our people— we will gain the inevitable triumph— so help us God.
Page 182 - ... equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or procure to be equipped, furnished, fitted out, or armed, or shall knowingly aid, assist, or be concerned in the equipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any ship or vessel, with intent or in order that such ship or vessel shall be employed in the service...
Page 169 - At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou ; and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks.
Page 283 - No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.
Page 280 - Yesterday, December 7, 1941— a date which will live in infamy— the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Page 43 - Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy at Culis, Bataan Province, PI, January 16, 1942.
Page 9 - Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Page 284 - He had gone over every point, every word, time and time again. He had studied, reviewed, and read aloud each draft, and had changed it again and again,; either in his own handwriting, by dictating inserts or making deletions. Because of the many hours he spent in its preparation, by the time he delivered a speech he knew it almost by heart.