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71 four-year medical schools in the United States. So, I really lost this opportunity.

Because in the interim the opposition had a chance to develop.

Yes.

Did you not have some lieutenant down there who could have functioned for you?

Nobody who would get Biemiller's real attention.

Mrs. Mahoney?

Well, no, she didn't know him well enough. It had to be somebody--I had probably given him support for his campaign. It just happened that if I had gone I could have done it. There was nobody paid or unpaid who could have done it, and because I was worried about my husband I gave in and didn't go down.

Biemiller worked hard on the Aid to Medical Education Bill in the spring of '50 and brought it up repeatedly at subcommittee meetings of the full Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee and lost by one vote. By this time, Beckworth of Texas went back on us. He had voted for us the day before and the AMA got to him and he voted against us and we lost. I believe the AMA reached him through the Texas Medical Society.