Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the American Medical Association has furiously fought the Democratic proposals that it considered steps toward socialized medicine, from Harry Truman's program for compulsory national health insurance to John Kennedy's $1 billion medical-care-for-the-aged plan. As taken over by President Johnson and incorporated into the Great Society, medicare seems a cinch for passage this year by the hugely Democratic 89th Congress. But the A.M.A. is determined, in the words of one top official, "to go down fighting." Meeting last week in Chicago, the A.M.A. House of Delegates endorsed an all-out national drive...
...reception line, they chatted and shook hands for half an hour. Dinner did not start until 9 p.m., not too long before such ceremonial White House functions ordinarily start to break up. The tables in the State Dining Room and the nearby Blue Room featured strictly Democratic chinaware: the Truman dishes in the dining room, the Wilson and Roosevelt dishes in the Blue Room. The menu honored the principal guests: the seafood was a la Golden Gate for California's Warren; the chicken was a la Bay State for Massachusetts' McCormack; for Humphrey there was wild rice from...
...biggest business, President Johnson insisted last week that the Government be paid more for such services. The budget he sent to Congress proposes new or increased "user" taxes that, if approved completely, would realize another $600 million for the Government. Some of the proposals, however, date back to Harry Truman's day, and even a tame Congress may considerably whittle down Johnson's requests...
Shuffled Beds. With all these people staying at the White House and across the street at Blair House (where Margaret Truman Daniel and her husband were putting up), a lot of beds and rooms needed reshuffling. Luci gave up her bedroom for a dressing-room cot to make space for several good Texas friends; Lynda Bird shared her yellow boudoir with a girl friend, and Governor John Connally got to sleep in Lincoln...
...Humphrey, the wives of Maryland's Senator Daniel Brewster, Pennsylvania's Senator Joe Clark, Commerce Secretary John Conner, Louisiana's Congressman Hale Boggs, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Postmaster General John Gronowski and Minnesota Governor Karl Rolvaag. He delighted the crowd when he helped hoist Margaret Truman Daniel over the rail at her box and took her for a brief spin on the floor...