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subcommittee gave us only a million, which was finally cut to $500,000 in the conference between the House and the Senate on June 19th, the day they adjourned after a 24-hour session. This is how we got little bits of money together for the main cause of death.

Still, I suppose, it was worth making the fight for, although I was bitterly disappointed, because it provided enough to start the Institute's program in this way: It was divided up into $175,000 in grants to states for state programs, state-controlled program; $75,000 for research grants to institutions, like medical schools; $75,000 for administration; $75,000 for trainees; and $100,000 for teaching grants. This was in addition to about a million and two voted through the regular appropriations bill of that year, but earmarked for heart research in the National Health Institutes and later transferred to the National Heart Institute. So it made a total for the year of a million 700 thousand dollars.

Albert and I had supplied the National Heart Committee with about 18 to 20 thousand dollars. had given about $25,000 and put in dollars. We never asked any of the members of the Committee for any money, and thus we got through a piece of legislation which we knew eventually would be the basis of a vast attack on the diseases of the heart and vascular system, the main cause of death of our people. Cardiovascular diseases are the main causes of death of people everywhere who don't first die of infectious diseases