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Memorandum from Howell Crim to President Harry S. Truman
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Memorandum from Howell Crim to President Harry S. Truman
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May 28, 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:
There are no existing funds available for painting
the exterior of the Executive Mansion, the Executive Office
and the East Wing of the White House.
Through the years it has been customary for the
White House to request, and the Congress to appropriate,
the sum of $50,000. every four years for the purpose of
such interior and exterior painting, alteration and
redecoration as may be necessary. The last such sum
appropriated was for the fiscal year 1941.
With the War on, and the resulting shortage of
paint and the difficulties of the manpower situation,
President Roosevelt felt that the matter of painting the
exterior should be postponed until after the War; consequently,
the item of $50,000. carried in the Appropriation for the
fiscal year 1945, was eliminated at his direction.
That the White House might now be painted, and
funds for other necessary repairs and alterations be
available, it is necessary thet the Congress be asked to
appropriate the sun of $50,000. If the President will
indicate his approval hereon, I shall set the necessary
machinery in motion to cause this to be done.
TROMAN
H. G. CRIM
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