this was from fdr to felix frankfurter.if they are to put up any memorials to me, i would like to be placed in the center of that green plot in from of the archives building. i should like it to consist of a block about the size of the desk." for years, i saw that blocked in front of the archives and it is about the size of a desk and they spent $50 million plus on the memorial. what happened? if you wanted a block of cement there, why did not leave it -- why did they not leave a alone? -- leave it alone? >> is a surprising interval after he died. in roosevelt's case, i remember when that block of granite was put up. felix frankfurter had just died in this was found among his papers. lyndon johnson was president at the time and he was a great hero worshiper of fdr so it was done almost overnight. the trouble was, there had been an ongoing project of a roosevelt memorial. there is a famous one that was advanced in the late fifties as a modern stonehenge. it was in a semicircle. there are endless debates -- you can find books

felix frankfurter had just died in this was found among his papers.yndon johnson was president at the time and he was a great hero worshiper of fdr so it was done almost overnight. the trouble was, there have been barred -- there had been an ongoing project of roosevelt memorial. there is a famous one that was advanced in the late fifties as a modern stonehenge. it was in a semicircle. there are endless debates -- you can find books and reprints on the latest plans someone should write a doctoral dissertation on the history of the roosevelt memorial before they finally settled in the seventh -- in the 1970's on the plan that was ultimately built. my reaction to the roosevelt memo was a sense that clyde d. eisenhower was a man of humility and would not want a grandiose monument to himself. my response is that nobody would. no president is going to write a memo saying that i am such an extraordinary figure that i think a battleship's size monument should be built to meet commemorating my achievements over the decades. i think that roosevelts memo -- i t