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them back to his original figure of $600 million. Also, he wanted a rescission on all the other research institutes and health appropriations generally. But the Congress had fortunately passed a budget control act, and in order for him to legally withhold funds they had to get the approval of the Congress. And if one house disagreed, with the President they had to pay out.

So they finally found out that they had to do this, which the Bureau of the Budget never believed, that they couldn't hold back the money. But the Congress acted, and the bureau of the Budget had to pay out. So they paid out/$691 million, plus $8 million that was left over from the year before. So they had $699 million for the national Cancer Institute for fiscal '75.

Now, this money was for research and for these cancer centers?

For research, for demonstration and control, and for the cancer research centers -- the 17 cancer research centers. So it supported a large amount of work in virology, and as of this year it is thought that we have a human leukemia virus. The confirmation of that may still take another six months, but I hope the next time I see you to tell you whether or not it was confirmed, whether or not in terned out to be a monkey virus, but it is thought to be a human virus. That was done by a Dr. Gallo at the National Cancer Institute.

Now, as far as clinical advances go, I'm going to send