Conversation No. 498-003
Date: May 13, 1971
Time: 10:04 am - 10:30 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Elliot L. Richardson, Dr. Merlin K. (“Monty”) DuVal, John D.
Ehrlichman, Ronald L. Ziegler and Clark MacGregor at 10:04 am; the White House
photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting
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[General conversation]
Ziegler and the photographers left at an unknown time before 10:30 am.
DuVal
-Dartmouth
-Role with administration
-Health care
-Position of doctors
-Nickname
-Jack Armstrong radio show in 1930's
-Background
-Father
-Travels
-Mexico (Nogales area)
-Wife
-Friends
Mexico
-People
US
-Blacks, Latin Americans
DuVal
-Role with administration
-Travel to Arizona
-Indians
-Los Angeles area
-Health care
-Predecessors
-Authority
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Role
-American Medical Association [AMA]
-Taft
-Title and functions
-John W. Gardner
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-Work
-Health care program
-Welfare
-Revenue sharing
-[Unintelligible name]
-Lewis H. Butler, Robert E. Patricelli
-White House staff
-Duke of Wellington's comment at Waterloo
-Staff needs, program needs
-National Institutes of Health [NIH], National Institute of Mental Health
[NIMH]
-Autonomy
-Narcotics
-Mary Lasker, James A. Shannon
-NIH, NIMH
-NIH director
-Dr. Robert Q. Marston
-Inter-departmental cooperation regarding narcotics
-Defense, Justice, and of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-U.S. troops in Europe
-Robert H. Finch
-Cancer
-Research, publicity
-Marston
-Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy
-State Department, Foreign Service
-Changes
-Problems of new appointees
-Richardson
-Fears
Medical profession
-Health care system
-US
-Burma
-US
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
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-Roger O. Egeberg, Richardson
-The President's plan in 1948
-Christian A. Herter
-Medical profession's response
-Morris Fishbein
-Russell Davenport
-Herter
-AMA
-Popular opinion
-Senators, Congressmen, and doctors
-Richardson's health care plan
-Political funding
Richardson's health care plan
-MacGregor’s work in congress
-Kennedy program
-W. Clement Stone's comments ten years ago
-Medical profession
-Views of administration
Presentation of gifts by the President
-Cufflinks, golf balls
Richardson, et al., left at 10:30 am