August 25, 1971

Dear Tom -

I am taking advantage of Gene's coming visit to Washington to send you this little note.

We will be moving to the San Diego area at the end of this month and hope to be settled into our new home there by the time mid-September rolls around.

Tom, you will recall that at the time of my retirement you presented me with a letter from Dick, a certificate of service and (if I understood) a silver medallion. All of these items were then returned to me, only shortly thereafter to be re-appropriated. I hope you can appreciate what these items mean to me and to my family and, accordingly, would ask that you see to it that they be made available to me. I would, of course, fully appreciate the need, because of security reasons, for discretion with respect to displaying these items to friends, etc., but at the same time I believe that the time has long since passed when the risk of losing them is very good, and my children are now at an age of maturity where they can now trust me to use intelligent discretion in the safeguarding of these items I wrote about. I would appreciate it if you would take this request into careful consideration.