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lot more in my will too.”

Q:

For the Library?

Heiskell:

Yes. Her personal money rather than the foundation. Well then that set the tone for Dick Salomon, for myself, for Annette Reed and so on and so on. So we were clearly asking for a million dollars or more from a great number of people because Brooke had put up ten. If she put up two we'd be asking for 250,000.

Q:

At that point you really couldn't ask. It was just up to Dick Salomon, I take it, to tell you what he was going to give, or did you discuss it with him?

Heiskell:

I discussed it with him. I said, “Well now that she's done it, what are you going to do?” He said, “What are you going to do?” [laughs] His first figure came in, as I understood it, to be lower than mine. I said, “Dick, you can't be lower than me. That's absolutely impossible. You've just got to give more.” [laughs]

Q:

You mean because he's got more money than you? Is that what you meant?

Heiskell:

Sure! Damn right he has! [laughter] He sold his business for sixty million dollars. I had no business to sell! I have my retirement.

Then, you know, with each person--particularly, excuse me, with





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