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personal wealth?

I think his own anxiety about his health was so great that he didn't want to hear about illness in others. I think it was just too much for him.

And he had no problem as far as financing himself or worrying about his illness.

That's right. And nobody happened to get on him about this particular subject.

Mrs. Roosevelt at that time. . .

She was not impassioned about this subject at all. She herself had always been entirely well. She'd been always well off. Her children were well. The only problem that she had that one knows about was the problem of her husband's polio, and it wasn't anything at that time that she was interested in. I mean, it didn't even enter discussions with her. I remember her speaking in public speeches and she wouldn't mention it.

I felt, and Albert agreed with me, that the availability of medical care through insurance would raise the standards of health and productivity of the people of the United States greatly. I was determined to see if President Roosevelt could not be interested in this problem.

In 1944 Albert and I both spoke to Judge Sam