ever since.
 
      Thereafter, in October, 1945, President Truman
requested the Executors to make available to the 
Senate-House Committee investigating the Pearl Harbor 
situation all of Mr.Roosevelt's papers pertaining to 
the scope of that inquiry. Miss Grace g. Tully was 
thereupon requested by the Executors to make a thorough 
search of President Roosevelt's papers for any papers 
and documents that might be requested by the attorney 
for the investigating committee. Miss Tully was 
authorized by the Executors to make all such papers 
available at the Archives Building to the attorney for 
the Committee for the purpose of making such copies as 
he might desire.
 
         Under date of November 28, 1945 the Executors
received a request on behalf of the President for 
permission to deliver to the War Department a sealed 
package containing the record of the trial of eight Nazi 
saboteurs which was with the Map Room papers in a 
separate vault at the National Archives. On November 30, 
1945 the Executors advised the White House that they 
consented to the removal thereof and delivery to the 
proper authority.
 
         Under date of April 8, 1947 President Truman
requested the Executors to make available to the Special 
Senate Committee Investigating the National Defense 
Program, for purposes of examination by the committee, 
a letter believed to have been written by James F. Moffett 
to President Roosevelt on April 16, 1941 concerning oil 
in Saudi-Arabia. Mr. Fred W. Shipman, Director of the 
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, was immediately requested 
to make a careful search
 
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