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But whether I'll get that or not, I don't know. I want the entrances to New York to be planted, the highway entrances, Major Deegan Expressway and the Harlem River Highway planted, because they're shameful now. But I don't know that I'll get any place with this. I have to meet Mr. Weisl first. Weisl is the new park man.

He's the new Park Commissioner.

Yes.

And you don't know him.

No, but I knew his father, and he's a, Denocrat, so I don't foresee that he's going to be very -- I don't know how much money will be put into it, but --

-- but at least he'll be sympathetic to your plan.

Let's hope. But it's very difficult. Don't you think it would be nice to plant the city for the --?

I think it would be great. I think it would be wonderful --

-- 200th anniversary --

Everything you've done in this area has improved the city.

Yes, but on such a small scale. It's all, you know, so small. It ought to be all Comprehensively done, the way Paris is done. Don't you think so?