Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby

Title:

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby

Number of Pages:

28

Description:

Dr. Michael DeBakey; the Heart-Cancer-Stroke Committee; LBJ’s interest in helping people; Albert Lasker giving money to the University of Chicago; George Brown; the regional medical program; Senator Lister Hill; Dr. James Shannon and the NIH; LBJ trying to get practical results from the NIH; Wilbur Cohen; fact sheets on heart disease, stroke and cancer; Lasker’s disagreements with Dr. Shannon; Truman’s effect on heart research and health insurance; the Kennedy family; doctor’s response to medical advances; articles about Lasker in Atlantic Monthly; arthritis-related legislature; Anna Hoffman Rosenberg; cancer vaccine; Dr. Monte M. Poen.

Contributor:

Lasker, Mary W. (Mary Woodward), 1900-1994

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Mary Lasker

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details