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In September 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt told Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter at the White House that if any memorial were erected to him, he wanted a plain block about the size of his desk, placed in the center of the green plot in front of the Archives building, made of limestone, granite, or another material, without ornamentation, and simply carved “In Memory Of ___________________.” On April 12, 1965, the twentieth anniversary of his death, a small group of his living associates fulfilled that wish by providing and dedicating the modest memorial.
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