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This tablet records the completion of the architectural conception of these international buildings and grounds of the Pan American Union, executed under the ever watchful and devoted administration of John Barrett, Director General following the scholarly design of Albert Kelsey and Paul P Cret and wise counsel and broad vision of Theodore Roosevelt President, Elihu Root Secretary of State from funds generously contributed by Andrew Carnegie and sympathetic subscription of the twenty-one American republics 1907-1912. |