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taking a nap and explained to him that this was a project that I thought was sure to fail and I didn't think he should be connected with any failures, nor did I want to be connected with any failures that were related to him, and that I felt that the size of it was too large and that he should have some survey made as to whether this was not so and what the right size should be for such a thing for the Washington community. He said to me, “What am I going to do about it?”

I said, “Maxwell Taylor's working for you and he's worked for Lincoln Conter before. Why not let Maxwell Taylor look into it?”

He said, “Oh, Maxwell Taylor is going to be horrified. He doesn't want to do anything like that.”

I said, “Well, get him and get Bob Dowling and Roger Stevens, who are producers and are interested in the theater, and see what they think about the scale of what is needed in Washington.”

I heard no more about it, but it seems that he got his gread friend Lem Billings and a man called Will Walton to get into this, and I think Taylor also had been consulted and Stevens certainly was spoken to. The next thing I knew we had a meeting about a year later. I don't think I went to