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a mistake, General and Mrs. Sarnoff and I were taken to the east portico where all the cabinet ministers and their families stood with the President and Princess Martha and Prince Olaf of Norway, instead of to a place on the damp ground full of snow where Anna Rosenberg and Mr. Baruch were waiting for us. Anna was astonished to see me standing on the portico and find herself on the ground, a matter which indeed should have been reversed.

After the ceremonies Anna and Mr. Baruch joined us in the East Room for a very sparse lunch for a few hundred people--a small amount of chicken salad and one roll--and I did not see President Roosevelt again. I think he received the guests very briefly and then retired to his own rooms.

We did talk with General Marshall and Mr. and Mrs. Ickes and others, and I remember Mrs. Truman received along with Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt.

Curiously enough, that night Anna and I dined with Mr. Baruch and Baruch said that he was having a survey on national health done for his own information. Nothing ever came of whatever survey he had made, nor did he ever use his influence in the health field. I don't know why.

Q:

What brought him to be interested at all? Do you know?

Lasker:

I don't know. Maybe his own state of health. But nothing ever came of it.

We urged Baruch to present a program of health insurance





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