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- to banish neglect and ugliness -- who combine on
an anti - litter effort or a block program of planting.
B ut -- I do not think any of us can rest on his laurels, --For the
m ore these bright att active corners of our city that show up -- the more
c leady we
- planning of The Sea Ranch,
a second home community on the Sonoma coast.
He is in charge of the plan to revitalize the major portion
of the towntown and civic core of Kansas City, Missouri, and his
plan for the $2-million reconstruction of eiqht blocks
- last summer.
There are other wonderful playgrounds and neigbborbood facilities in tbe
planning and construction pbase now: at Anthony Bowen School; at Bryan; and
at Kingsman. These are the building blocke far a better Washington; tbey
signal a pattern
- of landscaping
and activities on the Mall, landscaping National Park
properities in the center of the city, the development
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of demonstration blocks on Downtown F Street, the
development of Lincoln Place
- reached agreement on that.
This was the reason why, when the Nassif interests started construction on the largest privately owned building in Washington on
Seventh Street, Southwest, about a block and a half from FOB lOA, and
when GSA was able to lease
- admirable possession he has
is the sign on his storefront.
I have seen men step out the front
door of their business and look up at their beautiful neon sign without any realization that if he stepped three feet back, he'd find it
was blocked entirely
- u m b e r tw o f o llo w in g the H e r b Block c a r t o o n in w h ic h L y n d o n w a s the
p l a n t a t i o n o w n e r w ith a b u l l w h ip a n d h i s o ffic e s t a f f s w e r e c o w e r i n g
U n c le T o m s .
I s u p p o s e w e s h
- just didn't think we could do it .
But that suited me,
because I didn't think we ought to .
M:
You mean the Congress would block it?
B:
Yes .
Congress has a peculiar relationship with the regulatory agencies,
which I think it wants to maintain
- go over six blocks from home.
This is hard to believe, but we were trying to get into the cities, particularly in the poor areas where the people are.
One of the things we did was
to finance I don't know how many swimming pools in the cities, all
- have much,
much more.
If those few hundred trees gave so much joy, why not spread
it around!
Then Kenwood, the suburb of Washington, is so marvelous.
It's
about forty square blocks all planted in Yoshino cherries.
So Mrs. Johnson did a very good
- to do with the passage?
S:
Well, the election of that overwhelming majority in the House had
a great deal to do with it, yes.
M:
Now, [Speaker John] McCormack, as I recall, blocked the final vote.
S:
He did, and in retrospect it was a very, very
- , but it was not a transplant of a heart.
was a bypass of the main artery in my chest.
This
It was completely
blocking me off, and I only had ten per cent of the necessary oxygen
going into my heart at the time I went into the hospital.
F:
It's a wonder you made it at all
