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to withdraw the use of his brother's name.

He didn't want it as a memorial.

He didn't really want it as a memorial, and Jackie had made the same threat in a letter to Roger maybe a month or six weeks before. This type of thing, this form of arrogance about the use of the Kennedy name and lack of recollection of what their brother had been interested in, absolutely infuriated me and distressed Lem Billings beyond words, not to say Roger, who was less distressed but upset.

It would have been a very difficult meeting to preside over.

It was a very difficult meeting. Well, after this ground-breaking ceremony, at which Johnson did very well, Roger and I had asked about 400 people of the State Department people for lunch. We had asked leaders whom we hoped to get money from and people that had given money. We did indeed see some people that we hoped would give some money, and a few did--not very substantial givers, it turned out, but we had hopes.