Opal L. Taylor and Mary A. Taylor v. John W. Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

*258HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal caps the eighteen-year effort of Opal Taylor to secure Social Security benefits for herself and her permanently and totally disabled daughter, Mary Alice.

Mrs. Taylor has, with persistence but ineptness, pressed her claim before the Social Security Administration. She has been assisted in her unsuccessful effort by her Senator, her Congressman, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and by counsel in District Court.

There is no doubt as to the need of the mother and daughter, but we can no more award benefits because we sympathize with these needs than we can deny…