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 build-
ing 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 par-
ticular 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.