Harry Truman actually said...

"You can help prevent it from happening."

"I am highly interested in it because the papers of some of our Presidents of the United States, and of the Cabinet officers and of some of our departments, have been scattered from one end of the coun..."

"I hope you will continue to inform the people in Government on what they ought to do for the preservation of state papers."

"Just the other day, Mr. Leslie Biffle, in cleaning out an old dust-covered bookcase in the Senate Library, found some original documents signed by Washington and Jefferson and Polk, Madison, and Monro..."