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would have been happy if someone else had done and if someone else would come in and do it now. But, strangely enough, relatively few people have arisen to help us on any scale or have seen it on any scale. Some doctors have been enormously important and helpful once they thought about it. And, of course, the leaders in the House and the Senate of the committees that had to do with the appropriations, once they thought about it have been absolutely vital; without them there would have been nothing in the way of appropriations. But the people in the House in the Senate were used to large appropriations, but just not in connection with medical research, and it took them a little time to decide that medical research deserved substantial funds.

Q:

You really don't want to be relieved of the burden of carrying this on at this point, doyyou?

Lasker:

I'd be delighted!

Q:

Your work isn't done yet?

Lasker:

It isn't done at all, but I'd be delighted if somebody else would do it, because I can think of plenty else to do.

Q:

You have a concept which I'd like you to express for the record also, of money being latent power.





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