Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"I wanted to make sure that this archive is well preserved and accessible to future historians."

"Yes, because people did not write as much in those days."

"It is my thought, however, that an opportunity exists to set up for the first time in this country what might be called a source material collection relating to a specific period in our history."

"There is not. I think you will find among the papers three diaries that started on the first of January in three different years, far apart."