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Executive Director MIKE GORMAN

July 24, 1959

Honorable John E, Fogarty
House Office Building
Washington, D.C,

Dear John:

Dr. Michael DeBakey spoke to both Dr. Leonard
Heaton and Dr, Howard Snyder on Thursday. He said.
they were both deeply interested in the problem of
precise measurement of cholesterol. Dr, Heaton told
Dr, DeBakey that the President is always asking for
a cholesterol count, and that the President worries
more about it than he does about his golf score.

In talking to both doctors about the inadequacy
of heart research in this country, Or. DeBakey pointed
out that English scientists had developed a much more
precise measurement of fatty substances in the blood,

I enclose Dr, DeBakey's statement before the Roberts
Subcommittee, which goes into some detail on the new
English method. When Congressman Laird asked Dr,
DeBakey why we couldn't duplicate the English achieve-
ment, Dr, DeBakey said that we were lagging badly in
America in the development of surgical instruments

and techniques for scientific measurement of metabolic
changes. Dr. DeBakey told Laird that when he visited
Russia last fall, he saw a surgical instrument insti-
tute in Moscow which is far beyond anything we have

in this country.

I think this material can be used with some effect
upon Laird in the conference on Tuesday, Here is the
President of the United States unable to get a precise
measurement of the fatty substances in his blood he-
cause of a lack of research knowledge in this country,

Cordially,

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Mike Gorman

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