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Eventually when they have more space and when the plans are finally made and their operational funds begin to be available, this should be a major force in the control and the elimination of cancer. and eventually ateriosclerosis. Now maybe people eventually will die of arteriosclerosis, but actually people should have more chance to die of Just old age.

Q:

It's such a debilitating disease, before death.

Lasker:

Oh, both of them are just terrible, and there has to be some easier way to end the lives of humans on earth.

No other program in the history of the world has focussed on the training and care aspects of 71 percent of the deaths of the western world. This is really what it is. And the minute that antibiotics cleared the infections up, and the drugs against TB cleared away TB and the fear of polio was eliminated by vaccines, there was a hiatus, and nobody moved to say what's next? And these things are next. There was a big gap in action. These things hadn't really been focussed on and it's only really just beginning now. That's what I wanted to say.

The struggle to get clinical research funds on a larger scale. with NIH grants. made me appeal, as you remember, to the President at the President's Club Dinner last June In '66. I think I told you, while sitting next to him at a table laden with flowers and $$ white candles, that we





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