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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 17, 1952
Dear Heinie:
I
appreciated your letter of the fourteenth very much.
I am certainly glad that the property in connection with
the new Post Office site has been obtained but I fear
very much that there will be no chance of an appropria-
tion for a building at this time. I've refused to make
any new starts in any state on buildings, rivers and
harbors, or roads and I can't very well start in my home
town.
I'll be in a position, after this thing is over, to get some
things done that I can't do now for my home people. Get
the site matter all settled and the first thing you know we
will have the building there we want.
You tell the Harpies they had better begin to sharpen
their knives because after January twentieth I am not
going to be easy on them.
Sincerely yours,
Harry.
Honorable Edgar G. Hinde
Postmaster
Independence, Missouri
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