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true that they can't transplant very many. They offered to give the Park Service 500, but 500 azaleas is really nothing for the numbers of spots that we still have to fill to make Washington look as beautiful as it could look.

Is the arboretum the property of the federal government now?

It belongs to the Department of Agriculture. It's under the Department of Agriculture. The meeting was run by Mr. Stewart Udall and Mrs. Johnson with the Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman and his wife as the host and hostess. They fed the committee some cookies made of special grains and peanut flower afterwards with punch and I was very interested in the propaganda of food for peace that was being carried on through these cookies made of special kinds of flour.

Mrs. Johnson has asked me to arrive the day before the meeting to see some shots that had been made for a documentary TV show that I had persuaded Leonard Golderson, the head of the American Broadcasting Company, to do of her and her beautification program for Washington. It's really a sort of First Lady's tour of Washington, showing its good and great beauties and its rather seamy spots. Mr. Golderson