Dr. PETERS. Well, Addison's disease is a disease of the adrenal cortex which is characterized by a deficiency in the elaboration of certain hormones that allow an individual to respond to stress and these hormones are necessary for life, and if they cannot be replaced, the individual may succumb. Mr. SPECTER. And Dr. Burkley, or whoever was the President's personal physician, made a request that you treat him as an Addisonian? Dr. PETERS. That's right--he recommended that he be given steroids because he was an Addisonian--that's what he said. Mr. SPECTER. Were there any nurses present at that time? Dr. PETERS. I don't remember a nurse being in the room all the time, but they were coming in and out. Mr. SPECTER. Have you identified all the people who were present to the best of your recollection? Dr. PETERS. Did I mention Dr. Robert McClelland, he was also there. Mr. SPECTER. Was Dr. Dulany there? Dr. PETERS. I don't remember him, he may have been. Mr. SPECTER. Who else was there, if anyone, that you can recall, or have you now given me everyone you can recall? Dr. PETERS. Well, I am giving you my impression of the situation as I walked in and those are the ones I remember right now. Dr. Kemp Clark also came in during the maneuvering. Mr. SPECTER. Well, who else came in during the course of the operative procedures? Dr. PETERS. The anesthesiologists, Drs. Jenkins and Gene Akin, I believe, came in. Mr. SPECTER. Did anyone else come in? Dr. PETERS. I am not certain of anyone else. Mr. SPECTER. Now, tell us what aid was rendered to President Kennedy. Dr. PETERS. Dr. Perry and Dr. Baxter were doing the tracheotomy and a set of tracheotomy tubes was obtained and the appropriate size was determined and I gave it to Baxter, who helped Perry put it into the wound, and Perry noted also that there appeared to be a bubbling sensation in the chest and recommended that chest tubes be put in. Dr. Ron Jones put a chest tube in on the left side and Dr. Baxter and I put it in on the right side--I made the incision in the President's chest, and I noted that there was no bleeding from the wound. Mr. SPECTER. Did you put that chest tube all the way in on the right side? Dr. PETERS. That's our presumption--yes. Mr. SPECTER. And what else was done for the President? Dr. PETERS. About the same time--there was a question of whether he really had an adequate pulse, and so Dr. Ronald Jones and I pulled his pants down and noticed that he was wearing his brace which had received a lot of publicity in the lay press, and also that he had an elastic bandage wrapped around his pelvis at--in a sort of a figure eight fashion, so as to encompass both thighs and the lower trunk. Mr. SPECTER. What was the purpose of that bandage?