Home
Search transcripts:    Advanced Search
Notable New     Yorkers
Select     Notable New Yorker

Mary LaskerMary Lasker
Photo Gallery
Transcript

Part:         Session:         Page of 999

Lasker:

Well, I think that with Schmidt there and with the energy that he'll put in it, and the fact that his pride will be bound up in making progress -- he's a man of real consequence and he doesn't want to fight with shadows, and he will want to accomplish a great deal. He will push for the money and the Cancer Society will be pushed into pushing for the money, and if thre's any trouble, we will try to make as much trouble in the press as possible.

Q:

And the money appropriated in this bill for the three years is one billion six hundred million?

Lasker:

Yes. It's not appropriated, that's the ceiling.

Q:

It's authorized.

Lasker:

It's authorized and it's the celling. We'll have tofight to get it, out you know, once you've got an authorizatio it's usually easier than if you don't have an authorization and just go in without any authorization.

Q:

Now you have to fight for it yearly, for the maximum.

Lasker:

Yes.

Q:

What about the validity of the position of the comptroller of the Cancer Society? Will the society be affected by this?

Lasker:

I think the Cancer Society is affected by success. The new president of the Cancer Society took the pen from the President and appeared on television in support of the bill, and the Cancer Society is al





© 2006 Columbia University Libraries | Oral History Research Office | Rights and Permissions | Help