Word: lungren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day Nixon helicoptered from his hotel to the clinic of Dr. John Lungren, a Long Beach internist who has traveled with his campaign party in every national race since 1952, to get his annual physical checkup. He was pronounced in "excellent condition," agreed to use the White House pool for occasional exercise, then toured a community-built hospital near by. He found a lesson there too. Many Americans, he said, think that they can escape rising medical costs by the "knee-jerk reaction" of asking the Federal Government to provide "some kind of a system of free medical care...