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and the daffodils, it will make an area -- with trees and bulbs that will need no further care of any great nature, --. It will be the handsomest park planting of flowering trees and bulbs in the country, and it will supplement the cherry tree plantings.

Q:

What a concept: And this is all your own.

Lasker:

Oh, yes -- well, this is not hard for me. I can think of things like this very easily. And I'm going to do it anonymously and in honor of Mrs. Johnson and her efforts, and the President's. There will be a placque that will say this -- you know, that it's in their honor. It's a good enough model, some people will try to do something equally beautiful in other places.

Q:

I would hope so. Isn't Laurence Rockefeller inspired to do anything?

Lasker:

Well, no Laurence Rockefeller is more inspired to help with school problems and with rat elimination. Now, all these things are terribly interesting and important, but they don't add to the general visual beauty of the site, of the Capital, and that was really Mrs. Johnson's idea. I think that rat removal is something that the city and the federal government ought to jolly well do. I think it's a necessity of life.





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