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my lifetime. However, I had a feeling of guilty conscience about going when the Senate Appropriations Committee had not met and when I felt that so much could be done to raise the figures in the Senate, because there were a number of Senators who seemed to be, in principle, in favor of the idea. I determined to return to New York on the 16th of June on theUnited States so that I might have a chance to remind the men I had seen earlier of the facts and figures.

Meanwhile, was Mrs. Mahoney doing something down in Washington?

Well, nothing very active, actually, at that moment.

The hearings in the Senate took place while I was gone. Mrs. Rosenberg testified for the Heart Institute. Jim Adams testified for Cancer, as did Farber and Dr. Rhoads. My sister, Alice, went to hear part of the hearings, as did Harold Mantell. Florence was there the whole time. Everyone said that Thye was extremely interested and courteous but very few of the other Senators spent much time there, as usual.

Senator Robertson's dialogue with Mrs. Hobby at the hearing of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and especially with Dr. White, make amusing reading, as he really knows nothing about medicine.