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No, no we didn't. I don't recall that we did.

Albert and I returned on about the 15th of April and naturally a great many telephone calls had gone on between New York, Washington and the Coast, in the meantime. And Wilburton had been persuaded to hold the hearings in the House around the first week in May. I testified. It was one of the last/times I testified in either the House or the Senate, because I found I could get other people to do it better.

Do you find that a pleasant exercise?

No, not at all. I find that other people can do it much better and I don't need to, and besides, the Congressmen and Senators like to hear from doctors because they think they may get a little free advice.

One time a Senator had a long conversation with one of the doctors about the health of his dog!

Do you feel that sometimes they felt perhaps that this wasn't a woman's role, to be. . .

Well, I don't think so. I don't think the Congressmen and Senators on the whole have any great hostility towards me as a woman. I think doctors felt that more. The Congressmen and Senators were concerned with very large affairs and this was just one thing, and they thought perhaps I might be right, it