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Samuel Broder, director of the National Cancer Institute in the late 1980s, stated that Lasker "has meant essentially everything . . . to the . . . National Institutes of Health. She is a genius who forced the realization that the federal government must commit itself to medical research to benefit all Americans."
Original Repository:
Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Mary Lasker Papers