was headed by fiorello laguardia who wore to, he was the mayor of new york and the head of dbillion defense and so this was an effort to mobilize people that support the civiliandefense effort to be volunteers, to take their place .no that was where eleanor roosevelt was the assistant director of occ under fiorello laguardia and finally i'm going to catalog -- this last poster also came out in the fall of 1941 before pearl harbor and its sort of ambiguous. it says don't let him down. remember, there were no american military in a combat status at thatmoment . so it's a bit ambiguous is it that he's talking about letting them down, but he's trying to mobilize the defense workers in public at large to support the non-war war effort. and in fact, looking back at how roosevelt made, roosevelt sometimes thought the us might be able to win the war without ever having to declare war. he was hoping land lease and military aid be enough to defeat hitler but of course that wasn't the case so thank you for coming, i appreciate having anlaaudience here . [applause] after we're done, after the questions

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