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Letter from Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes to President Harry S. Truman
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Letter from Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes to President Harry S. Truman
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OF
THE
WHITE HOUSE
THE SECRETARY OF THE
WASHINGTON
jan
MECTIVEN
January 10, 1946.
My dear Mr. President:
I am sorry about the decision on the extension to the White
House. I agree completely with what you say in your letter of
January 7 about the East Wing. In my letter to you I suggested
that that should be demolished. As to the West Wing, if a new
addition is put to that there can never be any hope of restoring
the White House to what it was originally. Nor would this com-
pensate for the East Wing.
I know full well that you need additional space but I renew
my suggestion that this space be obtained across the street in the
Department of State Building to which there could be access through
a tunnel. I wish that I could see that the White House as a work-
shop would be any better by building the extension. But I cannot.
This seems to me to fall within the legal adage "Hard cases make
bad laws."
Of course the decision is yours even if I regret it.
Sincerely yours,
ARCHIVES 'NATIONAL AND
Horoed Lialer
RECORDS
is
SERVICE
Secretary of the Interior.
The President,
The White House.