forbes from vra, if you put that in, if the governor-- i said the governor hasn't done this yesterday. i don't know if i can deliver it. if the governor were to support this building does that give agreement to the height limits at the garden. forbes said that's the trick. >> the governor files the legislation and our friend tommy mcgee who didn't like mike, doesn't like me, -- and it it stuck. my coincidence, sometimes it's luck, by coincidence rimso, the head of the local 3 bricklayers, old friend of my father's, was retiring from the boston business agency job in getting promoted to a vice-president in the bricklayers down in washington. so there was a going away party for rimso with every building tradesman in the city attending. the governor gives his speech and says, there's a building that's going to be a zillion job and it's stuck up in the state house, get up there tomorrow morning. just went right-- everybody who thinks he wasn't, he didn't know how to play those political games, that's what really made it happen, was that integration of different aspects that he put togethe

i think, though in terms what's very interesting about this so vra never it passes the house and the senate president doesn't have to sign it. it is never ratified. but there are other things that the nixon administra nation did, especially in area of female employment. and frank, you and nixon scholars know one of the most interesting documents are annotated news summaries, and you get all sorts of stuff in those annotated summaries. well, very early on in the news summary, a group called american in television and radio urged nixon. this is an item in his news summary was urging the appointment of a woman to the federal communications commission. nixon, scrawled in the margin, why not? so, you know. there you go. right. and we're hearing a lot about barbara franklin and the importance and also setting numerical targets. when the interior department said we're going to hire 20 women, fred malik standing behind franklin said, why not 50? so she had that kind of support. but even more important than women in government. that's when when part of this triad were employment of women in f

a little committee of the three of us to work and do shuttle with steve forbes, who was at the the vra was the point person at the time. and out of that process emerged, the we didn't give away density. we imposed very strict height limits on the garden and the common and there had been a couple of fires of suspicious origin. and i said, oh, this is the racket. they're going to burn a couple of buildings in a come going to come in and claim hardship and what i put in a strict height limit until the -- have taken burn it down, but they can't build any more than what's there now. and in the urban renewal plan, we put in those height limits and the the plan worked what the transportation building which the supported another piece to that but what was the parking lot for the what was then the playboy club is now where the forces this hotel is respecting the height limit that was established in that environmental process the interact of different interests which the governor required. he's like an urban mechanic on balance, not allowing silos. as jamie said, on having us meet once a week wi