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of people could be so perverse.
Do you have widespread legislative backing for this change?
I think that everybody in Congress will think it's routine. I don't think there'll be any trouble. Or if there's trouble, I don't think it can be very serious, because this is certainly the intent of it.
Will Senator Hill spearhead this for you?
He's the only person who can because he's the head of the legislative committee in the Senate and by far the most interested person in the operation of the institutes.
Mrs. Lasker, you mentioned a moment ago the annual budget as presented by the President. I was interested in reading in the press at the time what he said about medical research and so forth. He felt that it was something of a triumph that there was no indication of a major cut in this area.
Oh, certainly, he added about 65 million dollars, but this isn't very much when you consider that the budget
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