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I know, you never commit yourself. You never know what's going to happen.

Well, I don't know. I'd commit myself if I knew. But Yarborough's had a terrible struggle politically and if the commission is to do anything important it needs somebody strong like Yarborough in the Senate to get legislation through at least next fall, but Yarborough will be fighting for his life. The Senate will probably not be in session from September 1st on and I doubt that any commission would bring out anything before that time. If he's defeated, then the commission is in vain on the Senate side, probably. You know? So I don't know what will turn out to be best. I'm really -- I'm going to let it take its course. I haven't got much to do but let it take its course now. But I did get people around the President to get after him, as you see, from the Laird letter, and I did give that memo to Senator Yarborough, and now I've got them both interested. So we'll see what happens, because you see, my feeling was that the Commission for Cancer, Heart and Stroke should have done what I'm talking about now, - made he conquest of these diseases national goals, but -- (May 15, '69 thank you)....

They stopped short of this?

They stopped short of this. It got perverted by the