Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"It is my desire that they be kept as a whole and intact in their original condition, available to scholars of the future in one definite locality."

"I have been thinking about it for the last three years, three or four years."

"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."

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