To assist her in her lobbying effort, Lasker hired Mike Gorman, a straight-talking journalist who had exposed grave deficiencies and abuse in mental hospitals in several states, including Florida (at the behest of Florence Mahoney and her husband's newspaper, the Miami Daily News). He would work for Lasker for the next forty years as director of her lobbying organization in Washington, the National Mental Health Committee, later the National Committee Against Mental Illness.
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