Correspondence Between Secretary of State James Byrnes and President Harry S. Truman

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February 20, 1946 MEMORANDUM FOR: Secretary of State FROM: The President Your memorandum of the nineteenth in regard to floor space has brought matters to a head, I think. There is still a possibility that we may get our improved office space for the President's office. There seems to be an entirely different attitude in the Senate now to what it was before. I have been discussing with the Director of the Budget the advisability of moving all the Military into the Pentagon Building and turning over the building where the Engineers are now located on 21st Street to the State Department. If the office extension could be built for the President, of course, the problems would all be considerably eased. I'd like to talk with you and Harold Smith together about the situation and see if we can't work it out to the satisfaction of all concerned. H.S.T. ARCHIVES NATIONAL AND RECOROS is SERVICE