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Rosenman, who at that time was Roosevelt's counsel, about the importance of health insurance. Judge Rosenman agreed and embraced the idea of talking to the President about it.

At the same time, Anna Rosenberg, who was a close friend and adviser of President Roosevelt and of ours spoke to Roosevelt, Although it was wartime and President Roosevelt was not well and heavily burdened in many way. In about January '45 after his reelection and after Anna and Sam had both talked with him, he said, to Sam, “Prepare a message on the subject of health and health insurance which I can send to the Congress.”

The President then went to Yalta--this was after a great deal of conversation on our part with both Rosenberg and Rosenman, really selling the idea to them, which even to them was a novelty.

It was not in the mainstream of their thinking.

Not in the mainstream of their thinking at all! And the President, it just had never been taken up with him. But they finally got him to the point where he said prepare a message for me to send to Congress.

He then went to Yalta and returned and on April 12, 1945 died of cerebral thrombosis, much to the distress and despair of his friends and to the distress and despair of the citizens of the United States.

Within the first few weeks of the time that President