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his unusual insight into the needs of research. He really was much more sympathetic and had more feel than the other Senators on the whole, except for Hill later on.

But it was difficult once the subcommittee had its understanding to change it.

Oh, yes, difficult to change the subcommittee figures.

He asked me exactly what I thought “realistic figures” were and I said I thought that $126 million asked for by the voluntary agencies and their representatives at the hearings was a realistic figure, that the Truman figure was probably the one which, considering the action of the subcommittee, was the most practical one for him to shoot for, and that was 70 million. This figure in the Truman budget had included 14 million 500 thousand for construction of additional research facilities in the five fields covering the main killers and cripplers. However, I felt that with the general attitude of the Administration against more construction that perhaps the best he could do was to support an additional 16 million in full committee, approximately half for research grants-in-aid and half for construction.

He said he would go for the figure if I would tell Chavez and the other Democrats to propose it tell them that that would see that he would support them. With great glee and