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didn't make him demand that they give additional money; he just agreed with us that more money should be given.

Q:

His opposition originally was based on the idea of waste in funds?

Lasker:

Oh, just that it was a new idea; he was opposed to it because it was a new thought.

Q:

Was Walter Judd of any use to you?

Lasker:

No.

Q:

Was he not at all interested?

Lasker:

Not interested, and almost, as I recall it, more hostile than friendly. Isn't that extraordinary?

Doctors had a tendency always to defend the status quo, you know, in medicine; that's their usual tendency, unless they're very interested in research themselves.

I did not go to Washington again until the end of June, after my husband's death, but I spoke to Senator Chavez a number of times on the phone. He was then the Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Appropriations for what was then the Federal





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