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San Antonio, which I did a day or so later, and spent a lovely day in San Antonio visiting her and about five other people, going to the museum, looking at the fair site -- It was about 90 miles to San Antonio . Of course that's considered nothing in Texas. So I drove 90 miles for lunch and 90 miles back, which is to me an awful long way to go for lunch.

Q:

You didn't take the plane.

Mrs. Lasker:

No. I didn't take the plane. We went to visit Mr. and Mrs. Krim over the weekend in a helicopter with the President. It's only 40 miles from his ranch but we went and dropped down on the Krim's ranch in the helicopter -- took us about ten minutes, I guess. We rode in all kinds of conveyances. The ranch was charming. It was extremely comfortable, very cordial, everyone was very , very agreeable.

Q:

Was this the season when the flowers were in bloom?

Mrs. Lasker:

No, Not it was just be ginning to be warm, not very warm. I had given Mrs. Johnson some cherry trees, which had never grown in Texas before, and which in the end turned out not to grow either. I had gone to try to talk to about some medical problems and about the assigning of to another





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