Testimony of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Director, Office of Civilian Defense, (14 January 1942) Washington D.C.

“Testimony of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Director, Office of Civilian Defense,” delivered January 14, 1942, Roosevelt, Eleanor. (1884-1962)

Eleanor Roosevelt, “Testimony of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Director, Office of Civilian Defense,” Hearings Before the Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration, Congressional Record, 77th Congress, House of Representatives 2nd sess., Pursuant to H. Res. 113, Volume 88, Part 1: January 5, 1942 to February 19, 1942, https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/crecb/_crecb/Volume%20086%20(1940).

A manuscript version of this speech was found in the Congressional Record with the help of Tom Rohrig, Associate Librarian of Texas University Libraries, Texas Tech University. The text presented in this unit has been transcribed from the government document. Paragraph structure is retained from the Congressional Record and paragraph numbers were added in brackets. Punctuation, capitalization, and formatting have been preserved, aside from three exceptions. In paragraphs 62 and 78, Roosevelt quotes from other sources. The Congressional Record has these quotes published in a smaller font size than the rest of the speech text, but we have chosen to indent the two sentences where this occurs. We made one additional edit; the number corresponds to the paragraph where this edit was made.

72: “They were here before, and they are much worse now” became “They were here before, and they are much worse now.”

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