No, Bob Briggs was, he was a PR guy. At that time, well step back a little bit as far as zoo history, the zoo was part of the city of St. Louis. The St. Louis Zoo has always been completely independent of politics. It’s run by the zoo board, but those board members were appointed by the mayor, so there was still some connection. But the zoo was supported by a mill tax, a property tax, from the city of St. Louis. At that time, back in the early 1970s, the city of St. Louis is surrounded by St. Louis County. It’s two separate entities. And the population was moving, like many metropolitan areas, from the city to the county, and a lot of the wealth was moving with that.
