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This is a corollary for research, to find out why this is so.

Yes.

In 1953, of course, we attempted again to interest the new Eisenhower Administration in the importance of medical research and in the National Institutes of Health.

And how did you go about interesting this new administration?

This I will tell you in the best way I can.

Eight or nine days after the inauguration of President Eisenhower, near the end of January '53, Florence and I could wait no longer and felt that we should visit Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, the newly-appointed Federal Security Administrator.

Did you know her

I knew her slightly. She was to become the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, because the bill for the establishment of this department got put through in that first year of the Eisenhower Administration.

Mrs. Hobby had been with the Marines?

With the WACS. She had been the head of it, and her paper had been very helpful to General Eisenhower, and he wanted