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Did she feel that she could make a contribution on that parkway commission, either specifically the Palisades, or generally conserving parks and parkways?

And in involving minorities in their vendor and contract decisions. Generally, she enjoyed the whole scope of their concerns. She never missed a meeting up until her illness. She visited different areas of their concern. But she also raised the question of minorities, of-minority vendors and whatnot. And by the way, she did things like that with a high degree of diplomacy. She wasn't militant in the threatening, flamboyant sense.

No Stokely Carmichael syndrome?

No. She got the facts, the data. She told me about it. She said, “Kenneth, I have these facts on what is being done. We've got to find out whether there are blacks who are involved in things like this. When I present it I want to say, ‘Here are the facts. Now here are some minorities who could be involved in the work that we're doing.’” Nash Castro, who was staff director, and other members of the board

Can we put on the record the day, as you recall it, that her illness was diagnosed?

Sure. Her illness was diagnosed soon after Labor Day in