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it's something that's a memorial.

Well, there was a great deal of discussion by Mrs. Roosevelt's friends and her children about the more or less commitments that she had made to the Wiltwich School, to the Eleanor Roosevelt scholarships and fellowships for foreign doctors, and to the Association for the United Nations. These were very thorny problems in the early part of the organization of the Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation, of which I'm a member of the board. I realized that it was sure to be ineffective on the whole, that it could never raise $25 million, as was the attention; and her children got into it, but they were unwilling or unable to raise or give any substantial money. But they got into the management of it or they made themselves felt in ways that prevented people who might have done more from doing it.

Q:

What did the act of Congress provide?

Lasker:

The act of Congress didn't provide any money from Congress.

Q:

And no implication...

Lasker:

Or no implication that it was going to give any; so that that was a kind of a piece of foolishness that I think was





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