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whole state-wide university budget. Don't you think you can?” Neil said, “Well I don't know. I'll try.” I said, “Thank you governor. I've made my case. I'm not going to bore you at all.” He said, “Now remember, I haven't promised you a thing. You can't go telling anybody that I've promised you this.” I said, “Governor, I wouldn't ever say any such thing about a politician until he's delivered.” [laughs] Then he found himself with nothing to do, so he gave me a tour of all the improvements in the capitol and so on! [laughs] I flew home knowing I was getting two million, or pretty sure. Two million a year is the equivalent of forty million of endowment. So that's big stuff.

Then we built a complete structure for the campaign--gradually built a structure. Then we took the 300 million and sort of repackaged it in entities that we thought were salable to different people because, you know, most people don't want to just give money. They want to give money for something. It's very strange. It doesn't mean necessarily they want their name on it or anything, but it's got to be something specific. Of all the packagings that I thought would never sell was one for a million dollars to dust the eighty-eight miles of shelves that had never been dusted in seventy-five years. You can imagine how much dust and dirt there was on them because we never had air conditioning. In summer, all the windows were open. All the dirt of the city was in the library.

Well of all things, Hannish Maxwell, chairman of Philip Morris, loves books. He thought dusting this was just the greatest thing that he'd ever heard of, and gave us a million dollars for that.