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This is a counterpart of Mrs. Kennedy's tour of the White House.

Yes, but this is in color and this of course got much greater scope than just discussing the White House because she is hoping that the whole nation--every city and every community in the whole nation--will try to do something about their cities as well as really to copy the Washington effort, and there was nothing that could be copied very well about Mrs. Kennedy's effort in the White House, beautiful and necessary and charming as it is, and what she did is there and hasn't been changed in the least bit by Mrs. Johnson, contrary to the worst suspicions of the Kennedy admirers, some Kennedy admirers--I'm a Kennedy admirer but I also knew that Mrs. Johnson wasn't going to harm what had been done. Many people thought, “Oh, it will all be taken down and a Texas atmosphere will be brought into the White House,” which isn't true at all.

That night I'd asked Mrs. Johnson after the TV show which was shown to us by the Secondaris to meet with two people I had met, Mr. and Mrs. David Cregar, who are art collectors and who I hoped would give us enough cherry trees to plant around the Washington monument. I'm still hoping they will,