Well, obviously how it came about was it was Nixon’s visit to China that opened the doors for the US and relations with China. And when Nixon went over there, he evidently was able to, or was offered the giant pandas. And we had very little notice, Ted came back and had gotten it. I mean, because we were the National Zoo, we were always being given state gifts that we necessarily didn’t want, of course the pandas were not one of those, but we got elephants donated to us. We got pygmy hippos, we get dorcas gazelles, reindeer, I mean, on and on. And some of these we didn’t want, but we didn’t have any choice and white tigers. So when the pandas were offered to the US, they obviously were gonna to come to the zoo and we were not prepared for that at all. I mean, it came right out of the blue and it was such short notice.
