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No. Certainly not. Dr. Guillemin, who is the Nobel Prize winner and a Lasker Award winner, was the one that made the speech, and that day at lunch, Lynn Wyatt, one of the beauties of Houston, gave a huge lunch for me, with all kinds of people from everywhere. One of them, the former Ambassador from Morocco, Benhima, and Mr. Gilford Dudley, and a large contingent of attractive people from Houston. Oh, it was a lunch for at least thirty.

This was a Mary Lasker Day in Houston, wasn't it?

Yes, it really was. It was really very pleasant.

Now, you were down in Texas in April. You visited Mrs. Johnson again.

Yes. Well, that was fun too, because, you know, she and I have been interested in the development of a big park on the river in Austin, which is called Town Lake Park, and it has begun to develop, especially some large beds of azaleas have been planted. It needs about ten thousand flowering trees and another about three hundred bushels of wildflower seed. You know, then thousand more azaleas. It's a hugh thing that needs to be developed on a vast scale, and nobody in the town has really gotten hold of the scale on which it could be done. If it were done on a big enough scale, it would be the showplace of Texas, because it has this river running through the city, around the edge of the city, and it would be -- if they had peach trees in bloom as they do in Washington, have cherry trees, this would bring really tens of thousands of visitors. It would make all kinds of business for this town.