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I think my selfishness is just enlightened. I'm selfish on a bigger scale than other people or in different ways. I've not had the problems that other people have had to make my own living in the last 25 years. I've been able to think about general problems that I had and that I experienced before I was married to Albert Lasker and to estimate the things that upset people the most and to see whether you could do anything about it. In the early '40s I think I told you that I was very interested in planned parenthood. Well, look how long it's taken us. It's taken 25 years for planned parenthood really to be a matter of lively discussion by the Catholics and by the newspapers. This really got engineered by men--thank God. It never was taken seriously when there were only women in it. It got taken seriously when it showed that our foreign aid wasn't going to be effective if the population was constantly expanding so that the per capita income never really rose much. That discouraged Eugene Black, and when Eugene Black gets discouraged, other businessmen get discouraged.

It seems to me, Mrs. Lasker, in your life and in your efforts you represent a true attitude of stewardship, the use of what you have for general betterment.