Due to the efforts of First Lady Helen Taft and travel writer Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, the iconic cherry trees bloom every spring in Washington, D.C. Working with Kokichi Mizuno, the Japanese consul general in New York, and Yukio Ozaki, mayor of Tokyo, Taft and Scidmore received over 3,000 cherry trees for the Tidal Basin in 1912. This gift represented the friendship between the United States and _____. *
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