The Sixty-Eighth Press Conference of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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CONFIDENTIAL
Press Conference #68
Executive Offices of the White House
November 10, 1933, 4.10 P.M.
(The Secretary of the Interior was present at
this conference.)
THE PRESIDENT: You will remember a number of weeks ago, in
fact a couple of months ago, I talked about the study we
are making in regard to postoffice buildings all over the
United States, particularly for towns which did not do a
great amount of business. We have finally come through not
only with a definite policy but also with a definite allo-
cation of money, and a definite decision as to the locations
of these postoffices.
The policy is to allot public works funds for the con-
struction of needed postoffices of a sensible utilitarian
character instead of the monumental edifices which have
been built in past years. The application of this rule of
reason by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public
Works has made possible a justification for a number of new
postoffice structures at a greatly reduced cost, structures
which will serve all the requirements of the communities
affected and also give them the benefits of wider employment
during construction. In place of the characteristic elab-
orately ornamented structures of stone which are frequently
produced as new postoffices, more modest and more fitting
buildings which will save the government literally millions
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