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and in the press?

I don't recall that the press made any lively comment about it. In the Congress it supported a bill already proposed by Wagner, Murray and Dingell for health insurance, and the other proposals really received no attention to speak of at all, except that I think it's possible that the Hill-Burton Bill got some impetus from it. I must ask Hill about that.

Were either one of these bills in anticipation of the President's message?

No, not that I know of. They were separate.

At that point you had not been in conversation with Senator Murray and. . .

No, Murray and Wagner and Dingell had presented their bill before the Congress but there had been no hearings of any consequence, and the bill never got out of committee in either the House or the Senate.

But this was a sign of some interest, at least, in the field.

Yes, this was a sign of a little further interest. But we decided, as a result of the nucleus of the people who signed