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He was Hank Bloomgarten, a boy that later was mixed up in that television scandal--what was the name of the program?

“$64,000-question” or something like that.

Yes, well, anyway, I thought he was sincere and willing to work. I asked himto be amember of the National Mental Health Committee, which we later called the National Committee Against Mental Illness, and to get in touch with me, if he had any specific ideas. He has contacts with Republican Senators, especially Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, who had never helped us in the Senate.

Did you know her personally?

I had met her and Anna knew her but she had never been interested or sympathetic with the need for money for research.

In September he had written me that he had seen Senator Smith, who, he said, could be interested in a big medical research program and asked me if we could meet to talk about it. I arranged a meeting between him, Mike Gorman, Alice Fordyce, and Jane McDonough. He explained to us that he spent some time with Senator Smith during his vacation in Maine, that he felt Senator Smith would support a billion-dollar program in Congress, if justification for such a program could be had. He asked if