Home
Search transcripts:    Advanced Search
Notable New     Yorkers
Select     Notable New Yorker

Mary LaskerMary Lasker
Photo Gallery
Transcript

Part:         Session:         Page of 1143

of the United States than any other one Senator.

Fogarty, too, has tremendous indignation and desire to see something done, but he doesn't have the education or the intellectual grasp of many situations that Hill has, but he's extremely shrewd and acute about some of it. He's a formidable enemy on the floor of the House and a very determined and very sourcefulally, very shrewd about the mechanics of human relations in the House or in the Senate, and very recalcitrant when he wishes to be, but a terrific ally when he is with you.

Then two of my other greatest allies are Sydney Farber, who is the head of the Children's Cancer Research Foundation of Boston and who has been a friend since about 1950 and who has testified every year before the House, usually before the House and Senate both, and told of the needs for money in the cancer field and for money for general medical research services and facilities and is a very effective witness and also a very sympathetic and kind friend and great ally, as is Mike DeBakey. Now, Mike Debakey, both of them were on the President's Commission for Cancer, Heart and Stroke and both of them were my suggestion, and there are no two such selfishness and public-spirited people in the field. If there





© 2006 Columbia University Libraries | Oral History Research Office | Rights and Permissions | Help