I was a mammal curator at the time. I remember going up there. It was funny because, and maybe it was Nixon’s wife, but I think it was, honestly, God, I think it was Carter, but anyhow, but Horsley was the general curator at the time and he was late and I’m standing with the Secret Services all over. I mean, there’s Secret Service men everywhere. And he comes running up the center of the Olmsted Walk and so he could see the Secret Service guys, and I yelled at him, I said, ” Horsley, slowed down for Christ sake, I mean, the Secrets Service are here,” and he finally slowed down. I mean, he had probably been shot if he’d had run up there like that. Did you have cart laws from the Smithsonian to build whatever you needed for the pandas. Yes, and we got extra money as well after that to expand it.
