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some yellows in some spots, so that there'll be a big display of daffodils, so that we'll all enjoy ourselves driving in and out to the country. Wouldn't that be fun?

Q:

That would be gorgeous.

Lasker:

Terrific, don't you think?

Q:

That is an area that needs something.

Lasker:

It just needs something, it's true.

Q:

It doesn't have very much right now except sumac and that's about --

Lasker:

-- that's about it, and of course the cherries will only last about five days in the year but the daffodils last two weeks, and in any case it'll be a glorious five days. What's more, the daffodils last more or less forever, once you do it, if they are not cut down too soon. I don't know how long it will-take me to do it because I've suffered with the recent fall in the market. I hope I'll have money enough in the next two or three years to do it.

Well, that more or less covers the main --. Oh, I gave a Christmas party December 12th for my friends and President and Mrs. Johnson who actually came at the last minute to dine and dance.





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