I was impressed with the simplicity of President Roosevelt's tomb (second image). It had no titles or accomplishments on it, just names and dates which I think is classy.
One of my favorite exhibits was a first draft of the 'Day of Infamy' speech with annotations (image is from the internet -US Archives). One of the annotations was actually the word 'Infamy' which was a substitute for the phrase 'world history'.
It is thought that the first draft was typed as Roosevelt dictated it to a secretary and the annotations are in Roosevelt's own hand writing.
There were also a lot of original documents dealing with Executive Order 9066 which was the vehicle that led to the creation of internment camps for US citizens of Japanese ancestry. Several people in the administration opposed this for example J Edger Hoover who wrote a 17 page memo dealing his reasons against it.
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