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- for the Preservation of the White House, and Executive Vice
President, Director and President of the White House Historical Association.
Scope and content note:
This collection contains materials collected by Nash Castro while he served with the National
Park Service
- make this arrangement possible.
I suggested
at that time that we form a non-profit corporation, as we have in
the case of other national parks.
I wrote a memo that went to
Mrs. Kennedy from the Associate Director of the Park Service proposing
- and the Rockefellers, particularly
Laurance Rockefeller. They would appear to be out of totally different backgrounds,
totally different political faiths, and yet there was an undeniably close association and
relationship. Is that something that you have thought about
- that. There is a
list there. We started calling it the Lady Bird Association, Inc. at the time.
On my own I developed the list of potential board members, drawing on friends
and associates of the beautification program in Washington. Many of the people on the
list came
- say, for the White House Historical Association also
donated $10,000 toward the project.
The cost wasn't very much above
that, maybe another three or four thousand dollars at most, and this
we paid for out of our National Park Service appropriated
- will erect it."
He showed up here in my office in short order, and I took him and his associates
across the way. They loaded the snow fence and took it to Resurrection City. I took
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LBJ Presidential Library
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ORAL HISTORY
