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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

The Chancellor asked how the exhibition area of the old Civil Service Commission Building compared with the Museum of History and Technology's. The Secretary stated that the former was smaller, as indicated by having 375,000 square feet of gross floor area compared to 750,000 square feet in the Museum of History and Technology.

On motion by Senator Saltonstall, seconded by Senator Anderson and Dr. Greenewalt, and carried it was 

VOTED that the Board of Regents directs that the remodeling of the F Street Building (old Civil Service Commission Building) go forward within the original estimate of cost.

REPORT ON NATIONAL ARMED FORCES MUSEUM ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Brown reported that the Board has been working with a small staff consisting of Colonel John H. Magruder III, the Marine Corps's present expert on military museums at Quantico, Virginia, assigned to this project without reimbursement, and Mr. James S. Hutchins, formerly in the Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army. Dr. Brown stated that the Board had met on January 20, 1964. After a study of possible sites for the Armed Forces Museum, it had been decided unanimously that the 341 acres at Fort Washington, across the Potomac from Mt. Vernon, constituted the best site. This land is now under the National Park Service. Negotiations would be started to acquire the land. One obvious advantage in being on the Potomac is that naval craft could anchor at the site.

Mr. Cannon asked if the Museum is to be maintained separately from the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Brown stated the Museum would be a part of the Institution and that the Advisory Board was Presidentially appointed but advisory to the Regents.

Dr. Hunsaker questioned the idea that the Smithsonian Institution would tell the Department of Defense what kind of museum it should have. Senator Fulbright wondered about the cost and was inclined to agree with Dr. Hunsaker. Dr. Brown stated he would not favor having the Department of Defense tell the Nation what its image should be. The