I had more going for me in New York than I could have any place in the country. In the world probably. I had a boss who listened to me and we fought. We had our fights but he listened to me. He found money for me. We used to do an operating budget every year for each department. Added an addendum to my budget at the end of every year which was things I wanted to do and it would be a little paragraph or two on doing a new exhibit for snow leopards for instance. Or I wanted to do something Baboons, with shalata baboons and why I wanted to do it, what we’d do with it and then I wanted to do gorillas.
