701 STONE C-IhYON RC
LOS flNG:LES 2'.

April 1, 1948

Senator Claude Pepper
Office Building
Xashington, f). C.

!?ear ClesuBs:

I have just wired you to get the dates of the
Yational Heart Znertitute hearing&. Understand
from the Rational Heart Coinalttee in New York
that ljenstor Yrnlth has prorulacad hettarlngs thie
Risnth o

I am very anxious that they be held asj BOOR 8s
possible SO that it can be voted on and appro-
priatione gotten before 5t Is too late to get any-
thing gollng thia yaar. X remember all the delays
we ha8 in the past on the CBIICBF legis3stion,
an& Z an sure everythin6 will be mom dlfficult
ttzis year on account of the polittoal snd
foreign complications.

Florence and I are going to be at our ranch,
the 2 Triangle ranch at KIrUand, Arizona, from
this Saturdray, the 31-4, until I leave the 12th to
go beck to Mew York with Albert. Think Florence
will stay on, but she will be corning to Washington
for the Xhtional Health Assembly, rem sure.

These are very trying days for you, 1 know. Albert
told me that he 8aw a strong wtateraent by you on tne
Russian sltuation, which I artz very happy that you
made a8 I feel that It will make people underetand
your position better. I do hope that Trurnan will
meet with Attlee and Stalin and try to coze to
some real understancilnij if that Is possible. In
any case, it must be tried, a8 I think you pointed
out .

Senstor Claude PegJpeaS
April 1, 1948

?age 2

I feel that the National Hetar, Xnslsituter
leefslstion can be one of the most Important
that can bta done tor our count~y. Eore than
twlce aa miiny people dLe each year due to
dlseases of the heart than were killed during
the four and one-hall yesare of war.  ;%ny
hundreds of thousands of these deaths were
unnecessary or lives could have been prolonged
If more had hen known through research a'bout
treatment and dlagnoafs.

The same ktnd of work that the Matlanal Cancer
lnstitute is now doing must be dons on an even
larger scale with the Heart Tnatitute, but X
tf-rink the Yational CanGsr InaLltltte bas started
a pattern In the laat year that will be helpful.

DQ wrfte ua at %he ranah and tall UB what fa
going on, an& how you and Mildred botn are.