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conference. The conference was for five days, and the representatives of the leading cardiologists of France and Italy and England and Belgium and Sweden were invited--the United States, too. We went to away with her at her chateau at Argenteiul outside of Brussels. the was incredibly energetic. The Council started early in the morning. There was an official luncheon by the city in one place, and there was a dinner some place else, and this went on day and night. Florence and I were exhausted, especially I. I never even saw an American paper, and didn't know there had been the most ghastly disaster in the stock market in that particular week of late May, 1962.

Denton Cooley, another surgeon from Houston, was there, who was very attractive but didn't have the big statesmanlike quality that DeBakey has. DeBakey is not only a great surgeon. He's really a medical statesman. Cooley is a fantastically skilled surgeon that Princess Lilianne also took a great fancy to, but he is strictly parochial Texas as far as politics or health insurances goes, and he thought Florence and I were practically Communists because we thought there should be health insurance in the United States.

The conference was extremely interesting because it was held part of the time in the city hall, and the King and Princess spent a great deal of time at it. Ex-King Leopold is charming and interested in medicine only because the to really. They took incredible trouble, and the conference ended with a