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Well, he didn't have any committee of his own he was no longer chairman of his committee on Wartime Help and Education. He was on the committees, but he wasn't situated as he had been.

However, we pressed him about it, and he said, “Well now, let's go and see Senator Bridges about the bill.” Bridges was then the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and he had had a heart attack recently. Bridges was at the time immensely powerful and he became an ally. He agreed to be a sponsor of a heart research bill which was later introduced, and when we told him the fact that there were no funds earmarked for research in heart or other diseases of the circulatory system in the National Institutes of Health, he said he would hold hearings for a deficiency approptiation to put funds earmarked for heart research in the National Institutes of Health, if I'd make some suggestions about who should be called, which I did.

Called as witnesses?

Yes, called as witnesses.

On the same visit to Washington, Florence and I went to call on President Truman, and we decided to ask the President for two things: 1) to send a second message on health to Congress demanding action on his comprehensive health program, which he had sent up a year and a half before; 2) to award a Medal of Merit to Sir Alexander Fleming to Harold Florey for the discovery