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was determined to adjourn because the political conventions were coming up shortly, the end of June of '48. However, as my husband was a well-known Republican in Illinois and was friendly with the Republican National Committeeman in Illinois, Werner Schraeder, he telephoned to him on June 5th, and when my husband telephones to someone and really asks for a favor, they felt such a charge of dynamic energy and they act immediately. He telephoned Leo Allen, Chairman of the Rules Committee asking him to give a rule at once for the bill. Allen did, and the bill passed the next day, with only the objection of Scribner of Kansas, who complained that it would cost money.

We heard this delightful fact when we were lunching with Mr. James Conant, President of Harvard, at Harvard that pleasant June day. He was consulting my husband about how to get more money for medical education.

Scribner complained that it would cost money. Kieth jumped to the defense of the bill because, as it was on the consent calendar, one complaint could throw it off the calendar. And in order to defend the bill he said, “No more money would be appropriated in this session,” which of course was to me terrible, but he saved the bill. About a million two hundred thousand was in the Appropriations bill to be allocated to the National Heart Institute from the Institutes of Health, actually in the budget, fortunately. When Scribner heard from Kieth that