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Security Agency and later became HEW. And this agency was the agency that contained the Public Health Service and the National Institutes of Health. I supported Chavez in his campaigns in the past and was supporting him in his current campaign for the Senate. He was amiable and vague, as usual. Finally, the last time I spoke to him, shortly before the hearings and before the markup, he promised me categorically to raise the research figures of all five institutes. This was after Anna Rosenberg, who was then Assistant Secretary for Defense, went to lunch with him. She talked to him about the importance of medical research in order to sustain and create more manpower. I'm sure she was very eloquent and that she helped greatly. However, it was Thye, the ranking Republican member of the committee. . .

Senator Thye? From Minnesota?

From Minnesota, yes. It was Thye with whom she was in most contact as she had done him many a good turn while she was in the Defense Department. Thye told Anna, too, that he was in favor of increases across the boards. However, when the bill came out of the subcommittee, only Cancer and Heart got any increases. The additional increases totalled about five million three hundred thousand dollars, which was really very small. This money was divided roughly between the Cancer and Heart Institutes. The Heart Institute received an additional seven hundred thousand for intramural research and about a million 800