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Memorandum from Samuel Rosenman to President Harry S. Truman
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Memorandum from Samuel Rosenman to President Harry S. Truman
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Tydings, Millard E. (Millard Evelyn), 1890-1961
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1945-10-03
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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON October 3, 1945 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT. I discussed with Senator Tydings the proposed Puerto Rican plebiscite which Rex Tugwell sub- mitted to you. Senator Tydings spent 20 excited minutes telling me how terrible it would be, that the Congress would never consent to statehood for example, and that it would be improper to submit state- hood as a possible alternative to Puerto Rico knowing full well we would not give it to them. for S. I. R. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND EVENUE RECORDS SERVICE* REVERSED