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suddenly in the last two years. And although the heart deaths had been going down a little, they'd been going down very slowly. There was a noticeable dip

So we have to do a great deal more on high blood pressure and just what we do I'm going to try to work out this fall.

Tell me about some of the steps you did take this past year in dealing with high blood pressure. Everywhere I went I seemed to have run into a mobile unit which asked people to come in and have blood pressures taken.

Really? Where have you been -- in New Jersey?

All over Maryland....

Really?

Yes.

Well, I'm thrilled that they're doing that in Maryland. We sent somebody into Maryland urging Maryland as a state to do something, and I'm thrilled that they're doing it -- absolutely thrilled. I never see anything like that in New York, never. But that doesn't mean that I'm walking around...

Well, you get out into the sticks and you'll see some of this.