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The Cancer Institute's project grants-in-aid were increased about five and a half million and its intramural research about half a million.

The conference between the House and Senate agreed on these full amounts. Fogarty and McGrath managed to get the rest of the conferess on the House side to agree. Even although it was nothing like what we had wanted, it was still worth having made an effort to organize and get witnesses to testify for this money. It was one of the few things that gave Albert pleasure in the last few weeks of his life. It happened about the first part of May and he was still able to understand and enjoy the fact that some progress had been made.

Mrs. Lasker, May I ask a question? I suppose this is not pertinent at all, but it keeps coming into my mind as you talk about legislation and the men who have been involved in pushing it. So often they are obviously Irish Roman Catholic men, and does. . .

Or Spanish Roman Catholic.

Yes. Does it have any relationship to their. . . .

Feeling that it's the will of God, that it's the will of God to die by whatever you die of and that illness is God's will. I have a feeling that in the case of Chavez it had, that somehow