Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, is one of a group of historians helping President Truman find a satisfactory spot for the records of his term, the president revealed at a press conference Thursday.
Schlesinger, along with Theodore C. Blegen of the University of Minnesota, Henry Steele Commanger of Columbia, and U.S. Archivist Wayne Grover, was first called in several months ago to discuss safe-guarding the presidential papers for posterity.
At the press conference the president revealed that he hoped to erect a federally controlled Archives Building in Grandview, Missouri.
In reference to the group's decisions, Schlesinger said yesterday, 'Well, Hoover did it at Stanford University, and Roosevelt did it with Hyde Park, and I think future presidents will want to go along on their precedents."
The advantages of such a system would presumably be its decentralization and the fact that all the documents pertaining to a certain president would be available in one library.
Schlesinger, a prominent member of Americans for Democratic Action, said yesterday that the meetings with the president were purely of a business nature. "No politics were discussed," he added.
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