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for the meetings of the National Heart Council and Anna Rosenberg and I called on Senator Thye of Minnesota, who had just become the new chairman of the subcommittee on appropriations for the Public Health Service and the National Institutes of Health. The control of Congress had changed to the Republicans. We told him we were expecting increases in appropriation this year and discussed the needs in the field of research. He was courteous and mildly interested, but I wasn't terribly hopeful.

Anna and I had an appointment with Mrs. Hobby in her office. She looked very small behind a huge desk there and she was calm, composed and very careful and cautious but cordial. We had a pleasant talk. She promised that research funds in the budget would not be out as far as she was concerned. The whole atmosphere in Washington was one of cutting and of defiance of anything that had been done under the Democratic administration. So that it would remain to be seen what would happen, we felt.

During the meetings of the Heart Council, I decided to take Frank Neely to see the new Director of the Budget, Joseph Dodge of Detroit. I had a letter to him from Sloan Colt, the President of the Bankers Trust, where I had a large account. Joseph Dodge received us pleasantly and Neely did most of the talking. We showed him the Truman budget for the National Institutes of Health, plus the needs for construction of research facilities. In connection with the construction figures, the Public Health Service had notified the deans of various medical