Word: clay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question of the moment had to do with doctors. Bill Clay's eyelids abandoned the struggle and retreated to his forehead. "I don't know anything about that," he said. "I was just sitting in. I need a doctor...
LATE Friday afternoon, after all of the formal sessions of the conference were over, William Clay sat in a red lounge chair in the Union trying to forget the sun was in his eyes and perhaps also forget that there were still reporters asking him questions...
...Clay had been a ubiquitous figure at the conference, chairing the Caucus's meetings with the press, serving on the panel on Communications and filling in on the one on Health...
...with the discussion during the session on Health earlier that afternoon. There had been some strong debate between the two white members of the panel, Dr. John Knowles and Pierre de Vise, on one hand and just about everyone else in the room on the other. Clay had sat in front of a microphone in the middle of the panel table while Knowles and de Vise had attacked the position paper of the Caucus for assuming that an increase in the number of black doctors was an unequivocal good. The question of the moment had to do with doctors. Clay...
...unavoidably symbolic. William L. Clay (D-Mo.) Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, opened the final press conference with a brief summation of why the Caucus had conducted its two-day forum on national priorities and why the group had chosen to hold it at Harvard in conjunction with three large liberal newspapers and the Institute of Politics...