Letter from Mrs. Phillip Soliday to President Harry S. Truman, with Reply from Joseph Short
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OCR Page 1 of 3April 23, 1952
Dear Mrs. Soliday:
I have been asked to reply to your letter of March
thirty-first regarding the renovation of the White House.
I think you should know that the President had no
responsibility for either the cost or the nature of the re-
modeling. By Act of Congress, this responsibility was vested
in a Commission composed mostly of members of Congress who
made recommendations to Congress for the work and obtained the
necessary appropriations.
Incidentally, the cost was not seven million dollars.
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It was $5,761,000. All of the work was done by contract after
solicitation of bids.
which could have at any minute collapsed all of
The work, necessitated by the crumbling the of floors foundations in 450-miss
the White House, consisted of removing the entire house inside
of the outside walls, and building an entirely new house inside
the old walls. The Commission decided to preserve the old walls
for sentimental reasons.
Sincerely yours,
JOSEPH SHORT
SERVICE
Secretary to the President
Mrs. Phillip D. Soliday,
Soy Bean Acres,
Vermillion,
South Dakota.
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