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FDR: “It is my desire that they be kept as a whole and intact in their original condition, available to scholars of the future…”

On the recordDecember 9, 1938
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.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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