Lan Quintcr. Hotel
La Quints, Cali Pornia
March 17, 1340

Florenoe, darling:

     Many, many thanks for -.our alippinps md notes.
didn't think the artiole about the new Surgeon General was too bad
and don't really understand why Parran was so rude, but he ha8 always
bedsl a rathcr tense, nervous person and I think he probably just was
sore that he hadn't been reappointed, and isn't really basically
amiable enouph to be gracious  in the! face of ft.

I really

I am worried about your beir.g so tired.

ushat did your

chec>k-,ip show?
as they do piak you up fast,

I hope you are taEne, big shots of livm, and B1,

        I think yuu are wonderful to have done 80 much work on the
heart hospital and hop it will venrk out promptly8
harder to do m local job like that than tc pet a bill thrcugh, as there
are 80 %my frustrating details, as you 'nave notised!

It really is muoh

I am fascinated that Ew- ar,d t.ie Governor aatually went to

Xey heat to see Truwar~ and also that you aaw Clifford in Miami and intro-
duced him to Mylie.
Presidential entourage ir the current Time magazine, the one that has
Clifford's picture on the cover?

DPd :JOU read tha piece about Clifford and the whole

If not, it is 8 must for YCU.

     I an oertainly worrying about the whole Tram situation. It
looks very tough and Vtallace is certainly lousing everything up.
you read Peglerts letters that he ~ap 6110 written by Viallace and which
probably are,  as far as I can tell,  a5 he has never denied it.

Have

Too bad you aouldn't dine oath Efssell, but an glad you had

a visit wfth him.
So far we have not yet got any hearings set in either the Youse or the
Senate.

ne must see him and get him ping on the Heart Bill.

I hop the painting pets dono in the bedrooms of the  ranch

this week and that %slvin gets the furniture and rugs put in the various
rooms so that you will not come into a lot of omfusion and work, a8 I
think that is so tiring.  I am going tc call him up tomorrow or the next
day tcl see how they are getting along, and to urge hi!- on.  Do you think
the cwta5n material for the living room and dining room has beer? sent yet?

The ;%alth bditorial that was wed in all the papers is really

a darned food sunnnmrry end we Bust use it.
votinq, along with Taylor, Lager and dallaoa. I noticed one comdttee
hearing in connection wit I the harshall Plav where he took up the Trylor-

Pepper still seem8 to be

Xallsroe line axrl ura8 the only one beside Larger and Taylor who voted
that way.  What oan we do with him?
and am wondering what is art tne bottom of it.

I really don't understand it,

It worries me.

     Fie have been over to Palm Springs a couple of times this
we& to dine with the Goldwyns.  &me I stat next tc Jack i)enny and he
was so busy with an allergy whtch caused him to have to blow his nose
all the time tnat I did not get a5 many jokes as I had expected out of
him, but he 88s cpite a pleasant, mild guy to meet in private life.
1 expeoted him to be much more dynamic.

Night before last Ws. hmny Kaye ame to dinner with US.

She and Danny are separated but she gave us soma aiarvelous imitations
of his goings-on, which were hilarious.

Last ni@t we dined with the Goldwyns again and  some other

moving pioture producers.
Errol Flp with long hair ( because he is working on the picture "Don
Juan") was there anl  various other looal charaoters which give the
place a speoial color.  People were half in rEestern cowboy olothes
and so01118 in costume and some in evening dress md scme in sport clothes
whioh really made a weird effect, but it waa fin nevertheless.

It was 8 bic night at the Iraoqst Club and

     tie are ping to the Bel-Air Eotsl on the ath,  so wfre
phone me there if you Peel like it.
Smathers tomorrow morning to fir;d out what is doing on the FIouse
hearing.
get the Bill voted on ad appropriations set in this sessfon. Ape are
always stuck for the on there things.
cmoer bill In 946.
tL6 got the big approgrlations in $47.

or

I am going; to try to call George

%e really have to push the hearings along or we will never

You remember how it was on the

However, t,% push we put on the uancer bill in

     Scheele called ne a couple of days ago and told we that the
House had passed 22 million for the Camer Institute, which includes
eight million dollars far the construotion of researah facilities, so
I ata not without hope that eventually Heart will get some real money
too.  But I want to see it happen this year, 80 we must rive it mme
punch whem we pt home, and dr thoxt we can from a distanoe.

Uuch love to you darling, and all the best to Dan. I em so

glad he likes the picture for his room and that you enjoyed the others.
I think the collection of reproductions re have for the ranoh is really
goine to be the finest collectior? of reproductions of French paintings
I have ever seam

Yours,

P.S. I think your column is fine.
from it? Study Beedda Hopper and Louella Parsons. They seem to have
what it takes, but they are 80 bitchy you could never se like them.

Are you yettine; any musing readions