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go to see General Snyder, the President's doctor, when we came home in the fall, but he was, unfortunately, now in Denver, taking care of Eisenhower. It turned out that this was the most life-saving heart attack which ever came to anyone, as the whole nation was alerted to what a heart attack means and how it should be treated with our present limited knowledge, as a result of the press conferences held by Dr. White and other doctors. Do you recall that?

Yes, I do, very vividly.

It also was the first time that people, on a large scale, heard of the use of anticoagulants, which had been given to him by Dr. Mattingly, a pupil of Dr. Irving Wright and Dr. William Foley; at least, he was a pupil in the sense that he had taken a course with them. And he was called in to attend to Eisenhower before Paul White came, and Paul White didn't countermand the order. But normally Paul White, until that time, had never used any anticoagulants.

Now, during this spring of ‘56, we got some help from a new quarter, a young man called Henry Bloomgarten had written a letter to Howard Rusk saying that he thought there was serious deficits in medical research in the Federal government.

Who was he?