PEDIATRICS Vol. 88 No. 3 September 1991, pp. A54
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SHOULD THE DIRECTOR HAVE MADE A HOUSE CALL?

J. F. L. MD

Opportunities to woo political doubters are not ignored by NIH. Orrin G. Hatch, of Utah, was a typical anti-spending, anti-Government Republican when in 1981 he ascended to the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, which has NIH in its law-writing jurisdiction. Several years later, Senator Hatch explained how he underwent a political conversion, as far as NIH is concerned. "While showering one morning," he told a meeting of cancer specialists, "I found a lump under my arm. I felt I was going to die." Mr Hatch said he called the director of the National Cancer Institute, a component of NIH, "and he told me to come right out there." The lump was diagnosed as harmless. From then on, Senator Hatch was in the NIH camp.


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