President Roosevelt held a special Press conference in the library of the White House today and announced that he had presented to the U.S. Government his published documents, his letters, official papers and his collection of paintings.
He explained that he had taken this action in order to aid students of contemporary history, who will find in his documents interesting subjects pertaining to his 25-year career in national politics. He added that he had also offered a part of his Hyde Park estate for the construction of buildings where these archives might be kept. And he had appointed a committee to finance the construction of these buildings from the proceeds of sales of his published memoirs, he concluded.—Havas.
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