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The date of the release is March 16, '67. Now, I would think that this has a fairly good chance to get some place in the Senate. I don't know, this I suppose goes to the -- I don't know who's going to hold hearings on it.

Certainly the sponsors, as you read them --

-- the sponsors, as you read them, present a broad base, and General William who's working on this problem in Washington as a volunteer for the Population Crisis Committee, is very energetic, and I have a feeling that really something may get done. Some substantial amount of money will eventually be appropriated. Now, I'm going to see Secretary Gardner and Wilbur Cohen on Friday and ask them, what are we doing and how much money are they going to ask for, so the poverty-stricken people in the United States, of which there are 20 percent if by our rule of thumb of people living in families with, what is it, $6000 and under now -- isn't it 20 percent that live at $6000 and under, or is it 30 percent?

I think 20, probably.

Well, at any rate, what are they going to give here, because so far they only have one million dollars earmarked for the United States on the federal level for any family