House Speaker Sam Rayburn, holding President Franklin
House Speaker Sam Rayburn, holding President Franklin Roosevelt's request for $7 billion. On March 12, 1941, the day after passage of the Lend-Lease Act, Roosevelt's personally signed letter asked for an a immediate appropriation to produce every gun, plane, and munition of war that we possibly can for the democracies of the world. Representative Clifton A. Woodrum, Virginia, at right. (CSU_2015_9_1032)
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