the special committee's investigation of the procurement of
petroleum products by the Navy Department from oil companies
operating in and near Saudi-Arabia and that such
letters and documents be removed from the files and
forwarded to him by registered mail. President Truman was
informed, on behalf of the Executors, by letter dated April
29, 1947 that Mr. Fred W. Shipman, Director of the Franklin
D. Roosevelt Library, had been requested to make that
search and that in accordance with his request, all such
letters and documents if found would be removed from the
files and forwarded to him by registered mail. That search
is now being made by Mr. Shipman at the Library. 
 
      In August, 1946 the Executors were informed that the
space occupied by the Roosevelt papers and files at the National
Archives Building would be required by the Archivist by the
end of the year for the purpose of equipping it for the
needs of the Archivist and that arrangements would have to
be made to provide other space for the Roosevelt papers.
Upon being advised by Fred W. Shipman, Director of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, New York, that
there was sufficient vacant storage space at the Library
for the papers, and to avoid any duplication of handling,
arrangements were made in October, 1946 with the Archivist
to remove the papers to the Library at Hyde Park, subject
to the same conditions under which they were being held at
the Archives Building. As part of that arrangement, it was
definitely agreed that if the papers ultimately did not go
to the Government, the Estate of Franklin D. Roosevelt
would reimburse the Library for the reasonable and
necessary expenses incurred
 
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