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Q:

Still another person.

Lasker:

Still another person, but we actually didn't have still another, person that we thought they would give way to. Actually, It was just a kind of a play to see if they could defeat Senator Hill and me. Now, they might well have tried to defeat me they owed all favors, all appropriations , all legislation to Senator Hill's grace and good will, in that Department.

Q:

It wasn't that they had in mind a different set of qualifications?

Lasker:

No: No, not at all. Not at all.

Now, it turned out later that Yalles had had some kind of a run-in with Cohn which was, as Cohn told it certainly ather 111 advised on Yalles's part, but didn't reveal this at the time. could easily have said, “Why, I'm really opposed to Yalles because he did so and so and so, “and we would have said, “Well, we understand that, then who do you suggest?”

He could have then brought forth Marston, it could all have been agreed. Instead of that, we had to go to the President, the President had to insist that propose somebody that we agree to -- meaning Hill and me -- before we got Shannon out. I'm very glad we got Shannon out because the chances are if we hadn't, he'd still be there, and for a long time. At least with Marston, or anybody else in the job, we have a chance to get more clinical research





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