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would cost $31 million, would be what would be the matching money. There would be $15,500,000 of matching money. The Congress would match $15,500,000 with the voluntary money. Well, as we already had about $11 million in hand, this seemed conceivably possible, but even then difficult.

At any rate, with many difficulties and with many catches and with many troubles with clerks of committees, this bill was passed within about four or five weeks of the opening of Congress. I think it was passed by around the first week of February.

Yes, a tremendous wave of sympathy was there.

Yes, and I realized that it had to go there because if you started it now, you'd have trouble.

Yes, just as you have with the Eleanor Roosevelt memorial.

Yes, and if you'd put a bill in Congress that had some small amount of money as a memoral to her, you probably would have gotten it right at that time. But there was no suggestion of federal money. It was just a federal charter,