THE  WHITE  HOUSE
                   WASHINGTON
 
                                     June 4, 1938.
 
MEMORADUM FOR
          Henry T. HACKETT
 
 
     On thinking over this proposed change in the telephone 
line at Hyde Park, I think you might tell the Telephone 
Company that I think it very inadvisable to do anything
about 
it for a while.
 
      The telephone service to Mrs. J.R.Roosevelt's place, 
to Mrs. James Roosevelt's place and to Mrs. Gerald Morgan's 
place is, I think, entirely satisfactory to all three 
subscribers.
 
      As I understand it, the object of this change would be
to
abandon the present line which Comes through the woods from 
Violet Avenue and connect up with the present line which
comes 
to the Rogers' barn on the Post Road north of us.
 
      As  you   know, the Rogers' plaoe is for sale and
nobody
tell what will happen to the