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side.

Were there any sympathetic members on the House committee?

Not in the beginning really. We did get Jonas from North Carolina mildly sympathetic through Dr. Paul Sanger, who was really interested and enthusiastic about more funds for medical research generally and for the Veterans.

Was this because it was such a radical, new approach?

Yes, they just hadn't heard about there being any special need for this, and they thought let the National Institutes of Health do it. They didn't realize that once you find things out in laboratories and on a small scale, you really need large-scale confirmation of any major discoveries for people to accept the new drugs readily, for doctors to accept them readily and give them to their patients.

This is a very simple proposition however.

I would think so.

I did get to know Sidney Yates, Congressman from Chicago, through Bill Blair, and I did support his campaigns for his seat in the House, and recently in his campaign against Dirksen. Yates, unfortunately, was defeated and is now United States representative to the United Nations. However, Yates was