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intimidating people over any kind of health legislation, not just health insurance.

Well, I suppose they had to deal with their boards of trustees and so forth, and they were representatives of the AMA.

Yes. But this was not just about health insurance; this was just about aid to medical schools so that they could got building money and have money for scholarships. The bill which had an amendment that the deans particularly objected to was introduced by Senators Russell and Kerr and lost in the Senate in the summer of '52, although Gorman had really worked hard on it.? Two deans who had previously been in favor of the bill, Hinsey of Cornell and George Baer of Harvard, now were unwilling to do anything to help its passage. They seemed to fear that the amendment by Kerr and Russell made the bill unacceptable, when actually the bill even with the bill would have been better by far than no bill at all, which was finally what they got, no bill at all, until this year of 1963, when a bill was finally signed for aid to medical schools to renovate and build new buildings on a matching-grant basis and for loans to medical students. Now, this took 12 years because of this maneuver of the AMA. Actually it was passed in '49 and then as it didn't