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Kennedy's funeral and I asked him that night would he be in favor of such a bill. He asked me to take it up with Abe Fortas and that he was in principle in favor of it. However, the next morning after the Kennedy funeral, Fullbright and several other people introduced bills proposing this same thing. Whether they had gotten the idea from Hubert Humphrey, to whom I had appealed the Saturday after Kennedy's death or whether it was just a spontaneous idea that arose with everybody, which it probably was, I don't know. However, I was very upset because they proposed matching funds because I could see that it was extremely difficult to raise money for this. Rich people were seldom Democrats and weren't interested in Washington and had really hostility to Washington. And Washingtonians were seldom rich, and the ones that were rich were not terribly generous or terribly interested in a cultural center for some obscure reason. And this was a terribly, terribly difficult task to interest people in. However, Fullbright introduced the bill for matching funds, and I thought a little bit about asking him to change the bill, but it seemed to be impossible at the time. His attitude was: Oh, no, there was some money raised and why not raise enough more? Fullbright, not knowing anything about how trouble some it was to raise