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take blood pressure. And if it's high, let's say three, It's simple. Just go on a drug, depending on what the extent of it is.

Well, I really think that's about it. I think I said that I went with Mr. John D. Rockefeller III to see Mrs. Johnson about urging the President -- actually the President did not do exactly as we asked, but he did say that the Institute for Child Health and Human Development must have an Institute for Human Reproduction within it to work specifically on family planning programs, and designated I think 12 million dollars for this Institute -- this institute within an Institute.

Q:

What do you know about the results of this recent conference in Columbia on birth control and that sort of thing in Latin America?

Lasker:

You mean the one that took place this winter?

Q:

Yes, in April --

Lasker:

-- this April? I don't know a thing about it. Took place h Columbia?

Q:

In Bogota.

Lasker:

Don't know a thing about it.





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