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Lasker:

Nobody. We didn't have any help. The other Democrat really wasn't strong enough, and Cannon was always against it.

I returned to New York, to my farm in Duchess County on the 22nd of May for a weekend and then left for Europe on the 27th on the Queen Elizabeth to go to the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Senator Murray was on the boat, a great friend and a man who had done much to help us get the Heart Institute, the Mental Health Institute and the Institute for Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases and then the Institute for Neurological Diseases and Blindness introduced and made into laws. Unfortunately, he wasn't on the Appropriations Committee but he was always willing to help anyway he could. I dined with him several nights, as he was on his way to Geneva for a conference. He told me that he intended to run again in '54 and he was now either 77 or 78. What a courageous man to be willing to go on! I think he would have been quite lost had he not been in the Senate when he died.

Q:

At that point he was still in good health, wasn't he?

Lasker:

Yes, he was in quite good health.

I had been determined to go to see the Coronation, as it was an event so picturesque that it was something that would give me special pleasure and one not likely to be repeated in





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