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work was covered for a two-year period by the Old Dominion
Foundation.

And yet, on this wholly inadequate albeit generous sum of
money, the project has recorded over 50,000 pages of memoir
manuscript, documented by a like number of personal letters.

Like most projects, university or otherwise, which contribute
to progress through research, study and scientific investigation,
the Oral Flistory Research Office depends for the time being
almost entirely on the vision of the men who carry it out for
recognition of its possibilities.

Because history evaluated in scholarship can be of immeasurable
help in the problems to come after this present time, and because
Oral History seeks to provide those tools of evaluation in the full¬
est and most complete sense, it is a project of tomorrow rather than
of today.