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toward the campaign, which did help a great deal. However, that didn't prevent Bob Kennedy from threatening to withdraw the use of the name as short a time ago as last May because members of the board weren't entranced with someone they wanted as artistic director of the center, which was a little bit premature anyway as the center wasn't ready for an artistic director.

Q:

He seems to want to take it over.

Lasker:

Isn't that fantastic? You can imagine how abrasive this is in a conversation when people are giving money and trying to raise money for a non-profit-making enterprise in behalf of his own brother. He should be happy to have two memorials, don't you think so?

Q:

Well, in the larger sense, it's such a wonderful development for our national capital.

Lasker:

It has everything. It memorializes a man that people wanted to memorialize, and it also enriches the national capital and we hope will enrich the whole country. But this is just something that didn't touch him at all. It was just





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