SENATOR REPORTS AMENDMENT TO FUND NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On January 16, 1922, Senator Francis E. Warren* (R-Wyoming), chairman of the Appropriations Committee, reported to the United States Senate an amendment to the Treasury Appropriation Bill which would include a "provision for a national archives** building" here in the Nation's Capital.
The proposed Archives would protect "valuable government records...from fire or other damages." The Senator's amendment would provide $500,000 for the acquisition of a site on which to build the National Archives.
With other additions to the bill, the total amount proposed, according to the Evening Star, comes to $121,273,074.
*Francis Emory Warren (1844-1929) was born in Hinsdale, MA & won the Medal of Honor as a Union soldier in the Civil War. FEW became the first Governor of Wyoming, 1890, & served in the US Senate 1890-1893, 1895-1929. He was the first US senator to hire a female staffer & his daughter married John J. Pershing.
**The National Archives, headquarters of the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA), is located at 700 Pennsylvania Ave NW, in Washington, D.C. US Congress approved construction in 1926. Designed by John Russell Pope as a neoclassical temple. Ground breaking 1931, President Hoover laid cornerstone 1933, opened 1935, completed 1937 & renovated 2004.
The Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of JFK, met formally for the 1st time on the 2nd floor of the NA on Dec 5, 1963.
SOURCE
"Bill Carries Fund For Archives Site," The Evening Star, January 22, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
JFK+50 NOTE
The 2nd photo below was taken after my high school graduation on a trip to D.C. with my uncle from Australia. I am standing in front of the statue "Future" by Robert Aitken (1935) at the NA on PA Ave which bears the words JFK once referred to "What Is Past Is Prologue."
This quote taken from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'...
"Where of what's past is prologue; what to come, in yours and my discharge."
