I checked my files and discovered that I had seen the letter there in 1976. As a historian, it makes you angry that these types of thefts are occurring.

It is a crime that material is being stolen from so many archives for it deprives future researchers insight into the past.

Hopefully, we can prevent these tragedies.

The only people advocating the Type IV change, that's the type of construction material, in that legislation were the three of us, that I'm aware of. At the time, Pruitt, he had the committee; he had the bill that was going to be settled in (a joint House-Senate) conference. So when that language was inserted it was a conference item and it stayed in the bill at his doing.

It's the first I've heard of it. It will be very difficult for me to comment on something I haven't seen.