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Memorial Hospital. The President added the name of his own Dr. J. Willis Hurst and of Dr. Charles W. Mayo.

That is the commission. The commission as of today, June 2nd, has had one full meeting and has broken into five or six panels, and is proceeding to make a series of recommendations to the President in early fall, which I hope will be made part of the President's Federal budget. I have confidence that this group of people is the best group that one could assemble for the purpose. They are outstanding laymen who question the present attitudes of conventional doctors and they are outstanding doctors who don't think in as sweeping terms of research as does General David Sarnoff, and I'm sure that between them all new suggestions and a new pace for research against these major killers--71 percent of our people die of these three conditions--and that some outstanding progress will be made as a result of this, if the report is simple and comprehensive enough and if the friends of the commission see that the suggestions get enacted into legislation and into money to implement the legislation.

They bring to this commission all their individual talents and their experience and knowledge. Do they also have available to them all of the information from NIH and the Public Service.

Oh, yes. Each panel is calling witnesses from NIH. They are empowered to call witnesses from any part of the United States. They have a staff of seven or eight people. It's a