A recent visit brought us to the FDR Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York for the 75th Anniversary of the FDR Library. There was an extremely interesting discussion/presentation by current and former museum directors and curators regarding the genesis of the library, archives and museum.

As always my research centers on the CCC art program and the New Deal art and the artists who were associated with the CCC art projects. On this last visit to Hyde Park I pulled some of the records for James H.Rowe Jr., attorney and advisor to FDR.

In the PDF I've uploaded, on the right, are selected confidental letters and memos discussing the displeasure the administration felt with the new CCC Director McEntee. Seems there were efforts being investigated (clearly with FDR's knowledge) to either oust or diminish McEntee and his position. Things were repidly changing in the 1939 - 1941 period, prior to Pearl Harbor.
This is not really relevent to my research, but I think I now have a better understanding of perhaps why the CCC didn't stand a chance as a permanent, independent conservation program as long as McEntee was involved.