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an operation on her hips, making a new -- or something.

Lasker:

Yes, that's terrible, that's a very complicated operation.

Q:

Apparently she has done this and it has improved her greatly, so I wondered if she wouldn't be a personwho would be far more sympathetic to the advances made in medical science and be interested in promoting them.

Lasker:

Well, she was until I think the lack of interest and sympathy on the part of Dr. Shannon, in something she asked him about, made her feel hostile towards the Institutes of Health, and she really was quite quite disinterested for a time.

Q:

Here's another article I clipped the other day. I suppose it has no significance for you, yet it did for me. “Important women are in many fields,” it says. The 100 most important women in the world today.

Lasker:

Yes. Well, that's one of those curbstone guesses, shall we say. There's the actual documentation. On that.

Q:

Thank you.

Lasker:

I could give you a Family Planning bill too, I guess, but I haven't got that, and an alcoholism bill, because it really was part of Mike's efforts, but it may be vetoed. (Later: It was not vetoed.)





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