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and although I'd been one of his great supporters and continued to support him that year, he was not very well and he was seldom present at the meetings. In the pinches he just wasn't there, so whatever real credit there is to give should be given to Thye and Chavez and of course to the changed attitude of the Committee Clerk, Downey, with whom Florence Mahoney had made friends during this year.

After Albert's death on May 30, 1952, I was more determined than ever to go ahead and obtain more funds for research against cancer and heart and other major killers and cripplers of our time. I realized even more pointedly how little was known.

Because you had called upon all the existing resources.

Yes, I really had. I had done everything you could possibly imagine, and people had helped me in every way they could possibly think of, and it was futile as far as Albert was concerned.

At the time of the meeting of the National Heart Institute's Council, which I went to toward the end of June, after Albert's death, Florence and I went to see President Truman one Sunday afternoon and asked him about the '54 budget, which was the last budget he'd have anything to do with. We asked, “Why not see that adequate funds are available for the Institutes of Health which were established as part of your health program and which are the