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.

Press Conference

12/09/1938

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I think it is a completely minor detail.

I think it probably goes back to the days of—when did we first get California? 1847, wasn't it?

I do hereby proclaim that a state of war unhappily exists between Germany, on the one hand, and Belgium, Luxemburg, and the Netherlands, on ...

They have often served to keep lines of communication open when disorder, war, or misfortune closed other channels.