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or done before.

In your statement did you marshal facts and figures.

Oh, yes. We had a source in a major fact book on the major cause of death and disability and we already had facts such as you could put together. Have you seen our big fact book?

You mean, the Lasker Foundation book.

Yes, the big fact book.

No, I've never seen it.

Oh, my heavens, it has everything in it, and I must show it to you because it's the basis of practically all testimony and how we get people to testify, because they didn't have any facts and they had to have them put together for them.

This small amount of money, the $500,000, made me determined to try to get a bill for a National Heart Institute, similar but with broader powers to the National Cancer Institute, and I hoped to get it through Congress the next session. The introduction of the 100-million dollar heart research bill by Pepper had stirred the American Heart Association, which was then a small group of doctors, and they consulted Leonard Sheely, then