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schools that 15 million was available for construction under the Truman budget and asked if they would let the Public Health Service know what their needs were. As a result, the needs of the medical schools totalled up to more than 145 million dollars' worth of requests, in contrast to the 15 million in the budget or the 40 million we asked for.

They were not baffled by figures.

They just realized that they really needed some construction money and each one of them wrote in and the total was so much bigger than anybody had thought of.

Dodge was interested but noncommital. He had been the Treasurer of the Cancer Society in Michigan and said we didn't need to tell him anything about the cancer problem.

I gave a lunch at about this time at the Hotel Congressional for the House Appropriations Committee, including Jensen of Iowa, Busby of Illinois, Fogarty, Fernandez of New Mexico, Dr. Rhoads of the Memorial Hospital talked about cancer research progress and Busby told me, “People think that the Chicago Tribune influences me. They don't. I just think like they do.”

Jensen was rather sympathetic to our conversation about our research needs and Budge of Idaho, who was a reactionary, didn't show for lunch.