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How much trouble it would be?

Yes.

I don't think so. I think that actually the whole thing unfolded gradually, and I think that the effort has been worth it on the whole, because I think the results are going to mean a longer prime of life for people here and everywhere, eventually.

That is true, but at that moment in your life, it seems to me that you were very much like a Renaissance woman, you were engaged in so many different things at the same time.

Yes, but I was really very engaged by Albert Lasker's personality and his health and by his doings, and at the time I really put this thought aside and I didn't think about Washington or going to Washington. I knew so little about politics that I thought Wendell Willkie would make a good candidate, and Willkie was really the candidate of amateurs, as you remember.

You say that simultaneously your own business was flourishing. You must have had some able lieutenants to help you; you couldn't have been intimately related with all of these things, could you?

Well, actually all that I did... (interruption)