In 1938, garden club militants were desperate to save the city's beloved Yoshino blooms from the construction of the Jefferson Memorial.
In 1938, women carry the chains they intended to use if the cherry trees were removed. By Steve Hendrix Steve Hendrix Feature writer without portfolio based on Local Enterprise but filing for National, Foreign, Magazine and other sections Email Bio Follow March 30 at 8:00 AM The Jefferson Memorial and the cherry trees that surround it — those seasonal co-stars of postcards, watercolors and selfies by the million — seem to coexist with the harmony of a haiku.
The plan to locate a memorial to Jefferson on the southeast corner of the tree-lined Tidal Basin was greeted with consternation from the start. In fine Washington tradition, each step of the design proposal met with howls of protest, from those who worried Jefferson’s memorial would overshadow Lincoln’s, that it would violate the ever-controversial master plan for federal Washington, that it would create a traffic mess.
"He requested that his name not be mentioned, as have all other officials who have volunteered information on the subject.” One particular champion of the cherries was Eleanor Medill “Cissy” Patterson, the flamboyant owner of the Washington Times-Herald. A born newspaper women — her grandfather owned the Chicago Tribune, and her brother founded the New York Daily News — Patterson may have delighted more in shaking up official Washington than in saving the cherry trees.
The president was not pleased, and he immediately blamed Patterson. Roosevelt told the assembled reporters that “the public has been subjected, by the owner of the newspapers, to the worst case of ‘flimflamming’ Washington has seen in a long time,” according to The Post’s account of the hijacked briefing.
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