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Well, now if they're coming up with a definitive sort of report in the fall...

Then that will make a lot of work for me, if it requires legislation. The President is more sympathetic to health problems than any President I've ever known, and Feldman is now more interested in the thing. It still isn't a major priority in their minds, but I think if the report is intelligently done it can be made a major segment in the President's war against poverty, because poverty makes disease and disease makes poverty. And this can have a profound, very far-reaching influence that might be historic in the whole history of medicine; at least, that's what I'm hoping.

Now, if this report is due in the fall, then this is going to require a lot of work during the summer months...

Mike DeBakey has promised to spend two months on it, to take off and spend two months on it. Now, he really is a marvelous man, and if works on it and F to work on it, and Sarnoff has been working, and Emerson Foote is engaged in the whole size of the problem, some good is going to happen that never happened before.

It also means that you're going to have to keep in touch