that is just the beginning of potomac park. and she said in her column, one day, this is going to be the largest and most beautiful park in the city, a place of magnificent use in future administration says. so this tells us that by the time she went to japan a few years later, she already had in the back of her mind an idea of a place in washington that would be perfect for a park, cherry trees, so that forced me to kind of rewrite the whole structure of my book because i thought, oh, i can, you know, the last third of the book will be about the cherry trees. but suddenly this pushes that story because then we begin to see the evolution of her vision. so she came back to washington and she goes to the to the men that are in charge of the parks, the city's parks, the army corps of engineers. and she suggests that you should plant cherry trees along the potomac. and they listen to her. they heard her out and then they ignored her. these were army corps of engineers, air officials. they had been trained at west point. they were v