Transcription: I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require. These measures or such other measures as the Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek within my constitutional authority to bring to speedy adoption. But In the event that the Congress shall fail to take one of these two causes, in the event that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear cause of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis, ...
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