THE WHITE HOUSE
                        WASHINGTON
 
                                      December 27, 1938.
 
MEMORANDUM FOR
               THE POSTMASTER GENERAL
               ADMIRAL PEOPLES
 
 
    Before anything is done with the old Post Office site
and building in Poughkeepsie, please speak to me. As a matter
of essential city planning, this site should not be
encumbered with a new office building or even City Hall
which would add to the present extremely congested
condition at the particular point. Actually the city ought
to buy the building and site, widen both Union and Market
Streets at that corner and devote the rest of the site to a
small park.
 
                  F.D.R.