National Archives

The National Archives is a pre-war building that houses an agency that was charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records. The building is relatively undamaged, but the documents and records have mostly been destroyed or ruined.

It also houses the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. The Declaration of Independence is in a small room behind a robot who claims to be the second signer of the Declaration.

The National Archives is infested by super mutants, centaurs and robots, some of which have personalities.

Trivia
In the Ladies restroom on the ground floor, a burned corpse is face-down in a toilet with a battery and wires attached to it, apparently electrocuted. If you attempt to activate the toilet, the character will be electrocuted and take 5 points of damage.

In the first room of the building, there is a computer mounted on the wall named "National Archives Guess and Win!" with a trivia game with questions related to American history. Answering all 8 questions correctly gives the player an Archives Prize Voucher, which can be redeemed at the Prize Redemption Terminal next to the trivia terminal. The player may choose between 3 different flavored Mentats: Glamourously Grape (Charisma +5), Brilliantly Berry (Intelligence +5), and Observantly Orange (Perception +5). Answering a question incorrectly will reset all questions, but the player can reattempt them with no apparent penalty. The correct answers, in order, are "The Second Continental Congress," "Thirteen," "John Hancock," "56," "Ratification," "King George III," "Happiness," and "Thomas Jefferson."

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Stealing Independence