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Lasker:

No. To do that you must be able to speak and I don't really like to.

Q:

Take a leaf out of your sister's book.

Lasker:

Yes, but it's a talent that you have to have or you have to want to cultivate, and I just don't have it.

Q:

She has done so remarkably.

Lasker:

She's wonderful, isn't she.

Q:

Isn't it an amazing thing. I have another question in connection with this legislation. It says in this article in the NEW YORK TIMES that the 1972 Health, Education and Welfare appropriation bill contained 337 millions for cancer research programs. Now, is this over and above?

Lasker:

No, that includes the 100 million that we got from Nixon last year. Now, we should go in to get 400 million, another 63 million dollars right now, maybe more.

Q:

So this 337 million is a part of the first year's --

Lasker:

It's a part of the whole, yes.

Q:

I wondered if it was over and above.

Lasker:

No, it isn't. So that still has to be worked on.

Q:

Would you comment on the progress from the first year, when you and your husband got involved in this whole thing -- what the amount of money that was appropriated?





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