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by outside groups or agencies. This is only for the

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authoritv of the Convention to act. Not in any sense

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is it meant to be a limitation on the authority to

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publish.

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THE PRESIDENT: I think the President ought

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to add to that statement for certainty and for emphasis.

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All Convention records in the opinion of the President,

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and this is the policy uniformly followed, are public

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records. The official journal, that is the original

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notes of the Journal Clerk, have been microfilmed each

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day and are in the Hall of Records where, of course, they

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are alwavs available to the public. The files of the

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Convention and of all of the Committees will be turned

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over ultimately to the Hall of Records where they will,

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of course, always be available to the public.

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The Archives has already put in motion plans

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to collect all of the documents from the various committees,

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all the files of the officers and all of the official

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papers of the Convention. These are being catalogued and

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boxed for delivery to the Hall of Records so that I

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would anticipate that within thirty days after the