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This was Dr. Topping's point of view.

Yes. I suspect that.

I hung up the phone in despair and I called Anna Rosenberg and Florence Mahoney. Anna called David Niles. I called Clark Clifford. Florence called, I'm sure, Clifford, too. Between us all, the memorandum of the Budget was detached from the bill and lost, and within a few days President Truman signed the bill.

He had not seen the memo.

Evidently not. These are the chances

There was no further effort on the part of the Budget people then.

Yes. I took a deep breath, but next came getting the supplementary appropriations so that the two new institutes just established would mean something. The Public Health Service was willing to put in a few funds that had been used for similar purposes in the National Institute of Health into these two new institutes to start, but it didn't amount to much. They had amounted to $578,000 for Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, and for Neurological Diseases and Blindness nothing at all in fiscal '51, not one cent.