
President Franklin D Roosevelt signs the GI Bill into law.
President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Statement on Signing the GI
most of the recommendations made by me in a speech on 28
It gives servicemen and women the opportunity of resuming
monthly living allowance while pursuing their studies.
It makes provision for the guarantee by the Federal
It provides for reasonable unemployment allowances payable
It establishes improved machinery for effective job counseling for
It authorizes the construction of all necessary additional
hospital facilities.
It strengthens the authority of the Veterans Administration to
With the signing of this bill a well-rounded program of special
to the men and women in our armed forces that the American
people do not intend to let them down.
provided for the armed forces of this war: adequate
protection of civil rights and suspension of enforcement of
returning veterans.
This bill therefore and the former legislation provide the
is to be congratulated on the prompt action it has taken.
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