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77/15/49 COMMITTEE FOR THE NATION'S HEALTH, Incorporated KELLOGG BUILDING 1416 F STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. TELEPHONE: EX. 8156 CHAIRMAN 286-A file Channing Frothingham, M.D. April 13, 1949 HONORARY VICE-CHAIRMEN Gov. Chester Bowles Jonathan Daniels Russell Davenport William Green Bishop Francis J. McConnell Mr. Charles R. Ross TRUMAN Philip Murray Secretary to the President NATIONAL ARCHAVE AND Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam RECOROS White House SERVICE Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt NY David Sarnoff Washington, D. C. Gerard Swope TREASURER Dear Charlie: Carl C. Lang SECRETARY I am channona enclosing for your information a copy of the report V. Henry Rothschild, 2nd that Dr. Trothingham will submit to the President Friday and CHAIRMAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE a copy of our press release on it which has gone out today. Michael M. Davis x The delegation is not finally set yet but I think it BOARD OF DIRECTORS will include William Green, Harvey Brown, Jim Carey, Robert Channing Frothingham, M.D. Thomas Addis, M.D. Wagner, Jr., and perhaps Morris Cook. Unfortunately most of Barry Bingham our better names are out of the country or in the far west. Ernest P. Boas, M.D. Wayne Chatfield-Taylor If there is room within the limits of six or seven, we will Morris Llewellyn Cooke include Chat Paterson, Executive Director of the Committee, John J. Corson Mrs. Gardner Cowles and Michael M. Davis, who drafted the report. Michael M. Davis Albert W. Dent Abe Fortas We hear rumors that the Taft bill will be introduced Mary Dublin Keyserling today or tomorrow. If it is, we should arrange somehow to Carl C. Lang Mrs. Albert D. Lasker slant this report at the Taft bill, which it really undercuts John V. Lawrence, M.D. very neatly. This could be done by having our delegation, when Mrs. Adele Levy Mrs. Florence Mahoney it comes out from the President, tell the reporters that the Dorothy Norman President felt this report sounded a death knell for the Taft Eric Peterson Emil Rieve bill or something of that kind. of course, if the President Anna M. Rosenberg doesn't care to be quoted on it, we could just have our delega- V. Henry Rothschild, 2nd Robert F. Wagner, Jr. tion make a statement of that kind, but it would not be so R. M. Walls, D.D.S. effective. Hubert Will Matthew Woll EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR We are sending a copy of this report to Charles Murphy Chat Paterson for use in the message if he cares to. PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR Nathan Robertson Thank you very much for all your cooperation on this LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATIVE thing, which we hope is going to give a good send-off not Margaret Stein only to this report but to others which are coming along 34 behind it, some of which are also very good stories. I assume, not having heard anything from you, that there is no chance for the President to do anything on the "penny for a dollar" campaign. If there is any chance, it should come shortly after he submits his message to Congress. Best regards, Report (see Pressflian) placed as mate Book Collection, its filiary 12/18 Nate Robertson America needs "a system of pre-paid medical insurance which will enable Americans to afford good medical care without further delay." -President Harry S. Truman, January 5, 1949.