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Lem had set out to try to raise through the business community he had hoped about $6 million of the reduced amount of money that was to be raised. Stone, in the meantime, after my first meeting with the President, reduced the center's size from a $76 million project to a $46 million project, including a garage. Our effort was to raise about $3 million with the hope that the government would put up the money for the garage eventually.

It wasn't clear that the government would match...

It wasn't clear, but the idea was that when a substantial amount of money, like $31 million, was raised, Kennedy would ask the government to put up the remaining amount of money. But this wasn't done and was only a kind of understanding with Billings. I don't know whether Roger was in on it, but probably.

Now, Lem Billings was made a trustee by Kennedy in order to expedite the building of the cultural center. He unfortunately did not know that the whole business community or the heads of foundations that had large funds, so all he could do, since he had large enthusiasm for the project, was to urge the President to do things. Now, the President, through his urgings, actually did get the Ford Foundation to give