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total funds for research and training in the United States, in the Public Health Service, has risen from two million three hundred thousand dollars to 880 million dollars in fiscal '63, with the hope of continuing increases. This does not include funds of 180 million dollars over the last six years for construction of research laboratories, a bill with which we had to do, and now the bill has been renewed with the help of our friends, and it provides for 50 million dollars a year for another three years for construction of research facilities. Compared with efforts in research for other kinds of information, especially in space, this is quite small; compared with defending ourselves against death from enemy attack, it's a very small effort. And we know definitely that we're going to be attacked by heart disease and cancer and a variety of other things and we can only speculate that we're going to be attacked--although we've had some pretty good evidence that we might be attacked or at least threataned by the Russians recently.

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Also compared with the amount spent for industrial research.

Lasker:

Oh, yes, it's small amount. So I don't think that we've come to any end. I think it just happened when we started that we were at a very great deficit that was somehow or other overlooked by everyone in the Congree and in the Public Health Service and some of the slack has now been taken up but it isn't enough yet. We still have cancer of many forms that are





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