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FDR: Your proposed gift does more than furnish what you call a 'nucleus'.

On the recordDecember 21, 1936
Your proposed gift does more than furnish what you call a 'nucleus'.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Excerpts from Letters with Andrew W. Mellon on the Gift of an Art Gallery to the United States.

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