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thousand more than it would have otherwise received for project grants-in-aid.

How do you account for that, Mrs. Lasker? Was it because these two areas were so highly publicized by that time?

I think that helped, but I must say that none of the Senators gave this area their really great attention, and never had it been adequately thought about until Hill got in in '54.

There was 800 thousand dollars allocated to a blood research program, which had been removed from the Heart Institute by the budget. The Heart Institute also received approximately 600 thousand dollars in addition for teaching grants. Actually very few people in medical schools were teaching anything about arteriosclerosis or heart, the major cause of heart disease.

And this blood research was related to that?

No, it was a research program really relating to the study of blood and lipids in the blood, as I recall it.

Was some particular Senator interested in that?

Well, it was the work of a group at Harvard. It may have been that Saltonstall was interested, but I don't recall.