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Have you tried to help him?

Yes, I've given him money and I tried to help him. He also won the Lasker Award with a group of people who helped to develop Thorazine a few years ago. Actually, he should be recognized for his discoveries on the usefulness of the anti-depressant, Marsalid, much more than he is. I hope he still will be. He's quite young.

So, we've had great triumph in the mental health field, something that one could scarcely have foreseen. One might have thought that more would have been done in the field of cancer possibly sooner than in the field of mental illness. When we got into it, it surely looked very bleak. The activity in the field was very poor. The National Association for Mental Illness was so conservative that they didn't want any lobbyists employed or any lobbying done. Mr. Lamont DuPont was on the Board and he thought it was very wrong to ask the Federal Government for any money, and within six months he dropped dead, leaving his 70 million dollars largely taken up in taxes by the Federal Government. It seems to me it would have been better to have applied a little of it to getting Federal funds for mental illness. The activities of the Association were very small and they never raised substantial funds for research or training, the never have. It's always been a futilily-organized group.

I had a great deal to do with it until 1952 when I resigned and organized the National Committee Against Mental Illness.