The Jefferson Memorial in the background. Taft responded and the rest, as they say, is history. So passionate was her cause she penned a letter to the new first lady, Helen Taft, with her proposal. Scidmore decided she would raise the money herself to purchase the trees, with the idea that she would personally donate them to the city. For 24 years her pleas were for the most part ignored. Scidmore approached each incoming Superintendent of the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds to plant trees along the edge of the reclaimed Potomac River.
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