Front. Loaded.
- FDR gives two examples to illustrate the need for "quicker and better results."
- First: airplane production is behind schedule, which is bad.
- Second: warships production is ahead of schedule, which is cool, but it could be better.
- He acknowledges that transitioning America from an isolationist, sleeping sofa dog into a powerful war lion won't be easy.
- He states that a great majority of the work will come at the beginning of this transition because defense production programs have to be built before they can actually produce planes, boats, artillery, and weapons.