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later.

As a result of the outsiders' testimonies before the subcommittee and with Frank Keefe's help, the Heart Institute appropriation was marked up to about seven million dollars from four million and they also added about a million dollars to the Mental Health Institute's budget. The Cancer budget, as I remember, was not increased but was around 17 million dollars, which was quite a lot more than it had been four years before.

The Senate Subcommittee on Appropriations met later, while I was in California, and again we arranged for more or less the same doctors and laymen to testify. The result of the Senate mark-up was slightly up for the Heart Institute but nothing additional for cancer or mental health. Dennis Chavez was the Chairman of the Subcommittee, and while he would always say he was interested, he was Catholic and I really think he thought illnesses were the will of God; he couldn't really believe that anything could be done that would interfere with them. He was just not interested in the subject.

The fact that the Senate hadn't gone along with the House mark-ups was phoned to me by Dr. Van Slick, who was then head of the National Heart Institute, while I was at the Z Triangle Ranch with Mrs. Mahoney in Arizona early in April. Van Slick said to me, “What about getting your friends in the Senate to try to amend the appropriations bill which will be coming up on the floor at the end of April. There's no heart construction funds in it and there isn't enough money for research.” Now, this