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resolution supporting S-34, the Kennedy -Javits bill, was not reported to the full board of directors of the American Cancer Society because of the opposition of the comptroller of the American Cancer Society, Mr. Richard McGrail. There were many people in the Cancer Society that really don't want large amounts of money spent or did not want large amounts spent by the federal government because they thought it would make it impossible for the Cancer Society to go out and raise money and of course that would be terrible if anybody lost their job, if any less money was given to the Cancer Society on a voluntary basis, because there was a lot more federal money.

Even there the objective is lost sight of.

Completely lost sight of. However, we finally forced the subject on the board of directors and they passed a resolution supporting it and praising President Mixon for his announcement of January 22, '71.

Did that help in generating --

-- Nixon's announcement helped, because many people in the Cancer Society are very conservative Republicans, so that helped. However, Nixon on the 18th of February unveiled a plan to establish the Cancer Conquest Program within the National Institutes of Health with a director responsible to the NIH director, not getting funds directly from him -- in other words, just enlarging the effort a little bit with a small amount of money but not making any big effort to get away from bureaucrtic control in HEW.

Who stood back of that proposal?