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- , Tennessee.
She was scheduled to make an
address at a new college in the outskirts.
We got word the night
before that it was likely the President would come also, so the
next morning we flew on into Nashville, Tennessee, and waited but
a few minutes
- The Grand Teton trips; Appalachian trip; New England trip; the Crossroads trip;
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INTERVIEWEE:
NASH CASTRO
INTERVIEWER:
Harry Middleton
PLACE:
Mr. Castro's office, New York City
Tape 1 of 1, Side 1
M:
We are going to talk about some of the things that have not found their way into the oral
histories in the Johnson Library
- and she gave money and plants to the
City of New York.
in evidence.
To this day the beginnings she made are still
Park Avenue and other places in New York, as a
result of her work, are still beautified every year.
As I said earlier, one of the things
- cities
like Philadelphia and New York and Chicago.
The first indication we had that they planned to hold a Solidarity Day exercise
came from the press. Progressively, as we had visits with their leaders about matters
relating to Resurrection City
- , because they were having so many internal problems in the camp in the way
of discipline, among other things, and the terrible rains that fell all during that period.
One Sunday morning, at a point where conditions were so bad in the camp as a
result
- to force a confrontation over not applying for a permit; selecting the name "Resurrection City" and why the original name, "City of Hope," was not used; negotiating the terms of the permit and a bond; Solidarity Day June 19, 1968; a demonstration by New
- morning, being Monday, the very first thing I did when
I came to the office was to dictate a memo to the Director, proposing
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
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INTERVIEWEE:
NASH CASTRO
INTERVIEWER:
Harry Middleton
PLACE:
Mr. Castro's office, New York City, New York
Tape 1 of 1, Side 1
M:
We're going to talk now about the establishment of the Wildflower Center. Ted Gittinger
on our staff prepared a chronology