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What else? Then somebody, then a Fortune researcher wanted to interview me--I got her on the phone--about the very rich and charity. I said that knowing I was about to come here, that I didn't really think I could answer that question by yes or no, or in one minute [laughter]. So, instead, I came over here

To have your oral history interview.

To have my oral history.

Okay. Let's go back to Harvard. We didn't talk about the 350th anniversary. Why won't you describe some of your impressions of it, and some of the highlights.

Well, the 350th anniversary had been in the planning stage for--oh, two or three years, with many people looking at it with a considerable degree of anxiety, because you don't want it to appear too flamboyant, too showy; on the other hand, if you're going to have a 350th, you've got to have a lot of events. So they planned--I think there were maybe as close as 100 different seminars over a period of four or five days. And by the way, the attendance at the seminars was absolutely fantastic. The response was marvelous. We had a terrific gala in the stadium, with fireworks, dances--oh, all sorts of different activities. We had one dinner that never took place, because when we got to Memorial Hall, where the dinner was to take place--we were all before there in a building nearby, having cocktails--and as we got to Memorial Hall, the pickets