Correspondence Between William Adams Delano and President Harry S. Truman, with Attached Clipping

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July 14, 1949 Dear Mr. Delano: Thanks for yours of the eleventh, enclosing me a clipping about the Swimming Pool from the Paris edition of The New York Herald, signed by yourself. I am hoping that work will soon start on the White House. If the Congress had allowed me to go ahead and fix it in the first place I would have had it half done by now and I know very well it wouldn't have cost anywhere near what they are saying it is going to cost. I am counting on you to see that the cost doesn't run into an outrageous figure, and to see that the job is done so it will last five hunéred years. You know McKim, Mead and White had a great reputa- tion as Architects but if their reputation was based on the work in the White House they wouldn't have any. I don't want that to happen to you. Sincerely yours, by TROMAH HARRY S. TRUMAN ETT SERVICE' RECORDS Mr. Wm. Adams Delano 126 East Thirty-eighth Street New York 16, New York