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details of it bored him because he was used to operating on a very big scale himself and yet he was too tired to take this up; it wasn't his natural...He was in favor of the principle of doing something about it without wanting to do it himself, and if he had been interested in doing it himself, he would have done it differently and on a bigger scale, even, although he wasn't interested sufficiently in the detail of medicine or what you could do and he was always frightened by it. So, he never would have done it himself, never. But whatever was accomplished, when it was done, for instance, when an Institute bill was passed or when we got additional appropriations or when anything was actually accomplished or when some new discovery was announced such as the discovery of cortisone, he was interested, and he actually himself, when I was ill, went down and interested people in the House--Fogarty and Frank Keefe--on appropriating two and a half million dollars for the exploration of the usefulness of cortisone, which really put the United States way ahead in the knowledge of the usefulness of cortisone for many different kinds of conditions. But, on the whole, he wanted me to do it, but he didn't want to hear anything about anything except the.

Well, to go on with the awards, through the Planned Parenthood Federation, I established an award for outstanding contributions in the field of planned parenthood, and originally I wanted these awards to be given in honor of Margaret Sanger and Dr. Hannah Stone, two of the leaders of the movement from the beginning, but that idea was not well carried out and they became Lasker Awards.