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private money for this project, thought: Oh, no. It will be fine done half by voluntary money and half by public money.”

He didn't make the effort to find out the past history of it.

He didn't make any effort about the past history of it, and there was no time to talk to him about it. At any rate, I realized that time was of the essence and that the faster there were hearings and the faster the bill was passed for any money, the better. Well, Fullbright's idea was that the full amount, the $46 million, would be matching money. In other words, we would have to raise (the total cost of the building, including the garage is about $48 million) $26 million instead of what we were planning to raise before Kennedy died, which was $31 million. And I realized that we'd be lucky if we raised enough for just the building, not the garage at all. So we devised a plan and finally persuaded Roger Stevens (Ralph Becker, who was the general counsel, and I devised the plan), who was entirely against it at one moment--the night before he was to testify, as a matter of fact--, to testify urging the Congress to give the money for the garage as a kind of pay-off thing like a bridge or anything else. It would be paid off by the fees of the people that used the garage and that the superstructure of the buildings, which