HARDING'S LETTER ENLISTING AID FOR VICTORY MEMORIAL BUILDING RELEASED
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On January 14, 1922, the White House made public a letter from President Warren G. Harding to state governors and D.C. commissioners asking for their assistance in erecting the National Victory Memorial Building here in the Nation's Capital.
The White House also released replies to Mr. Harding's letter from the governors of Maine, Delaware and New York, as well as from D.C. Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph*, endorsing the Victory Memorial project.
In his letter, the President wrote...
"The structure is intended to be a worthy national memorial of the services of our armed forces in the world war and also to represent a compliance with the wish of General (George) Washington that a great educational establishment should be provided here."
According to the Evening Star, the movement to erect the Victory Memorial Building "was inaugurated by Mrs. Henry F. Dimock**."
*D.C. Commissioners in 1922 included Mr. Rudolph, James F. Oyster & Charles Keller.
**Mrs. Henry F. Dimock was president of the George Washington Memorial Association.
SOURCES
"President Enlists DC & State Aid In Memorial Here," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., January 14, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
"Report of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 1922," DIG DC, www.digdc.dclibrary.org/
